HEROIC WOMEN
SERVICES RECOGNISED. 1
HELP TO LAUNCH LIFEBOAT. ;
DURING SEVERE BLIZZARD. , BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. i (Received Jan. 27, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 26. The Royal Lifeboat) Institute is presenting letters of thanks, bound' in vellum, to thirty-five women of Bowlner, * situated in Grace Darling’s district on the Northumberland coast, who helped to launch a lifeboat in the early hours of December 30th, .1025, in the teeth, of the severest blizzard known for many years. They dragged the life* boat, weighing three and .a half tons, a distance of a mile and a quarter,— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 January 1926, Page 5
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98HEROIC WOMEN Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 January 1926, Page 5
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