BRAVERY
TAUPO.—The bronze medallion of the Royal Humane Society was presented to Raymoiftl Leslie Raita George, aged 11, at the Taupo school yesterday. The presentation was made nby Hr S. Armstrong, chairman of the Taupo Town Board, in the presence of a large number of residents and tiie school pupils. The boy saved a four-year-old . child from drowning in the Waikato River, above the Aratiatia Rapids, at great risk to his own life. ’
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Northern Advocate, 21 August 1948, Page 7
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