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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 June 1923, Page 7

I Two sets of line-throwing apparatus, C i With extra rockets and lines, have been Ordered from England for the Auckand i Harbour Board. The need for such - , apparatus was brought prominently to • public notice when the Wiltshire was * , wrecked on the Great Barrier just a - year ago. Captain H. H. Sergeant, f harbourmaster at Auckland, during his • j recent visit to England, attended a demonstration with the. Sehermuoy line-throwing, apparatus and it is thfs particular kind of life-saver that is * , being supplied to the Harbour Board, j ' The following new books have been j received at the Public Library: "The . Log of a Woman Wanderer," by Mabel - Stock; "Seven Ages," author of! r "Gentleman with a Duster," Harold i , Begbie; "Men-like Gods," H. G. Wells; j Tonga Bay," Sophie Osmond: "The* Evil Shenberd/' Opperiheim; "The I Whelps of the Wolf/ OeOrge Marsh: v i ""The Finishing Stroke," E. E. Tow-1 7 ' good; "The Return of Anthony Trent," j Wnydham Martyn; "The Torrent," V. ! - Ibanez; "The Sealed Valley." H. Foot-' - ncr; "Patuffa," B. Harraden; "The » Treasure of Christophe," Ottwell *> .Bums; "Prince Punnie," A. W. ! Mavchmont; "Jill—a Flower Girl," L. i T. Meade; "Bishoo Hannington's Life s and Adventures," W. E. Berry; "This. , My Son," John Freeman; "The White - Desert," C. R. Cooper; "Give and .- Take," Amber Reeves; "The City of - Wonder," E. Charles Vivian; "Jimmy a Dale and the Phantom Clue," F. Pack- - ard; "Lady Jem,". Netta Syrett; "Sir - or Madam?" B. Ruck; "The Beauty of : Martha," Nellie McClung- "The House !, of Death,". Marcel Merger: "The , Golden Panther," Sinclair Glnck; "The , Dinner Club," "Sapper." , I In this work-a-day world, when com_ c mercialism seems to grip at the very a heart of our everyday life, and when c most things are valued according to rs their monetary value, people do not, v always realise the deeds of heroism j - which are going on unseen around j t them (remarks the Auckland Star). \ c Lately, a man, to save thexlife of a ' c fellow workman, allowed himself to be c drained of every drop of blood which r he could with safety to his own lifo f allow the surgeon to take, so that it - might-be put into the veins of another j g whose life was despaired of, and whose s sole chance of recovery depended on' c the infusion of blood. It meant fully' i- six months of careful going before he s could recover, and it meant a big loss c in wages to the man who had saved j a tho sick man's life. He had to draw ' s heavily on his savings bank account, ' n and he had, in consequence, to put f. off hi's (wedding for 'another few >- months; but he was satisfied, and never ir uttered a word about what he had il done. Some of his actions were missr understood, and it was only through ie a chance word of another that tho L story of heroism leaked out lately, ' it fully eifrht months after the event had " taken place.