ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 8951, 16 December 1905, Page 5

ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.

AWARDS FOR SAVING LIFE.

£p*MB AMOOUTIOir.I

CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 15.

The Council' of the Royal Humane Society decided in regard to the Puncan -case, in which two Maoris rescued a body -at Napier which proved to have been in the water about two months, that in view of an opinion received from the governing body in England, the Council could not ■-see its way to make an award or consider the matter further.

The following awards were made: — ■George McDonald, Wellington, rescuing a boy from drowning,' a letter of commen- • dation. Reginald P. Wilder, Christchurch, rescuing a boy from drowning at Wanganui, bronze medal. William Brooke, chief -officer of the s.s. Star of Australia, for rescuing a. man from being "drowned or crushed to death at Natoier roadstead, silver clasp (Brooke already holding a silver medal). Evan P. - Mcßoberts, Pauranga, • rescuing three people from drowning, silver medal. Hugh Kelly, Gisborne, rescuing a -child from drowning, bronze medal. Edward James McGunn, Pukekohe, rescuing ,a man. from being run over by a train, silver mejdal. Charles Walter Tonkinson, Nelson, a similar, rescue, silver medal. Edwar* P. Laveiy, Kaitangata, rescuing -a man from drowning, bronze medal. William P.' Riddbck, Belfast, rescuing a girl '•from drowning, bronze medal. Henry Nolton and Charles Fenton, Auckland, rescuing a man , from drowning, certificate and letter of commendation respectively. In the case of Ann Miller, of Clive, who died while" attempting '• to rescue her brother from" drowning, ,no award was • made owjng to t&e,£bsfence v of evidence.

"WhyVniy deW-Tfian?' declared th> r hypBOtist, *by making a few simple passes befot«r jtarr*yesar6a». mala*- gfttt forget that .■wra;aw;mamed." "Go ahead, ' said ~ihe other. ' *Tve Wd trying to forget it 'for ten-years."