HEROIC SERVICE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 7 June 1923, Page 7

HEROIC SERVICE.

RESCUE OF SHIP'S CREW

OFFICERS

AND SEAMEN

HONOURED

BY CA.BLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

Received June 7, 8.50 a.m

SYDNEY, June 7. Lord Foster, on behalf oi: the United States Government, presented Freakes, captain of the cruiser Melbourne, with a pair of binoculars and seven of the seamen with a gold medal each in recognition of their heroic service in rescuing the crew of the schooner Helen B. Sterling on January 25, 1922. A gold watch and chain, which the President of the United States desired to present to the late Admiral Dumaresq in connection with.the same event, was handed to his relatives.—Aus -N Z Cable Assn. " ' '