FOR BRAVERY.
It OVA I, HUM AN E SOCIET V AWARDS.
CHHISTCHUBCH, Aug. 19. The following awards for bravery were made to-day by the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand: Silver Medal: Arthur John Skelt-on, nurseryman, Helensville, attempting to save J. Crenmer from an attack by p. bull on July 10, 1929. Bronze Me cl a 1: Charles Buxton, traveller, Hillsborough, rescuing Walter Wilkins from drowning at Opotiki on December 9, 1928. Bronze Medal: Cyril Vincent Mills, Plimmerton, attempting to rescue N-ewburn King and James Masterton and rescuing four other men from drowning at Paremata harbour on Deember 30, 1928. Letter of Commendation: Sydney. Reid rescuing Thomas Welsh from death in a land slip caused by the earthquake at Newton Flat, Buller Gorge. June 17, 1929. No award was made in the case of Laurie Walk-ley, Palmerston North, who rescued Joy Williams and Francis Martin from drowning in the Ma-na-watu Gorge on January 31, 1928. The rules of the society provide that applications for recognition of acts of bravery must be made within 12 months and this application was made Itt Into It "'as agreed to forward a Httm* c'-orcssimy the society’s high ■livi'e iation of Afr W a 11cley’s act.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 20 August 1929, Page 6
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