ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.
AWARDS FOR BRAVERY. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS »=«OCIATTO'* CHRISTCHURCH, June 1. At a meeting of the Court of Directors of the Royal Humane Society it was decided to grant framed certificates to the following, whose eases were discussed at a previous meeting of the Court:—• Colin. Pearson, aged 16 years, a grocer’s assistant, at Hokianga, who rescued a boy five years o'f age from drowning at Kohu on March 12, 1924. , Maud Christina Arthur, aged 17, who rescued a man. aged 35 from, drowning at Otautau on December 3, 1924. Frederick Carson, John Fenton, Thomas Middleton a,nd William Barclay, miners, of Kaitangata, were Bach awarded a bronze medal for bravery in rescuing two miners who had been buried under a fall of gravel in the Taratu mine on. January 22, 1925. Johu Douglas Lundie and John Robert Macdonald, both of Wellington, were awarded framed certificates. Lundie, a waterside, worker, rescued a man from drowning, and Macdonald rescued a school girl from a similar fate in Wellington harbour. '
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 3 June 1925, Page 5
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