A BOY’S COURAGE
REWARD FUR LIFE SAVING I United Pien* Association] HAMILTON, This Day. in recognition of his action 111 rescuing a small Imv, Roy Hunt, from drowning I i-i tin? Waikato River at Hamilton on 18th ' March, Inn Robert Paterson, a pupil of! th. Hamilton High ‘School, was presented I with the Royal Humane Society’s certi- j j iltato lor courage urn! Immunity liy Mr J. | ] R. Low. a vice-president of the society, to- I j I lie rescue was effected when Hunt had ; 1 fallen out of a canoe and was in difficul- ; tics. Paterson made his way along the ! ; bonk of the river, jumped in, and saved! 1 the boy-s life.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 14 June 1939, Page 3
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114A BOY’S COURAGE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 14 June 1939, Page 3
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