FIJI SCOUT HONOURED.
SILVER CROSS AND BAR. PLUCKY NATIVE BOY'S ACTS. [from our own correspondent.] SUVA, April 25. The silver cross with the bar and certificate has been presented by the Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, to RoverLeader Haitia Makaba, of the 2nd Davuilovu Group of tho Boy Scouts of Fiji. Tho doubla award has been made for two acts of bravery. In November, 1927, he swam out into the flooded waters of the Rewa River, rescued two Fijian children from drowning, tho two children having been engulfed by tho flood. A year later, in November, 1928, Makaba, at great'personal risk, stopped a runaway horso at Nausori, on tho Rewa. Having secured the horse Makaba went back to find tho Indian driver of the buggy. Finding him on the roadway Makaba rendered first aid to tho injured man. Tho native Boy Scouts are showing a fino record of good deeds and the movement is so popular among them that their numbers have moro than doubled in 12 months. Tho Governor had tho pleasure of presenting tho gallant Makaba with his well-earned decoration.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20564, 15 May 1930, Page 10
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181FIJI SCOUT HONOURED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20564, 15 May 1930, Page 10
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