A LETTER OF THANKS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 18 May 1927, Page 4

A LETTER OF THANKS

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —May I tresspass on your space to give publicity to my own personal gratitude and that of the Wanganui Collegiate School to those good-heart-ed men of the Mount Egmont district who volunteered such splendid service in rescuing the bodies of my deeplyregretted colleagues, Messrs. Latham and Baines, and also of Air Taylor, who now lies in a precarious condition at Craigholm Private Hospital, Hawera, —all three victims of the mountain tragedy last week. I should like to thank them all personally, but except in one or two cases I do not know their names. Thier unselfish service undertaken at the same risk and considerable hardship to themselves, isi beyond all praise, and nothing that I can say or do is capable of adequately expressing my real feelings. Their conduct on this sad occasion is & splendid tribute to the humaneness and manhood of the district, and well may Taranaki be proud of such sons. I hope this poor attempt at acknowledging our deep debt of gratitude to the rescuers will meet their eyes, as l would be very -sorry to think we should be accounted in the last , degree insensible to their noble services.—l am, etc., C. F. PIERCE, Headmaster, Wanganui Collegiate School. Alay 15, 1927.