KING'S POLICE MEDAL
WAIKATO RIVER RESCUE
A SERGEANT'S GALLANTRY [ii v TE f. K« R A I*l1 —I'll KSS ASSOCIATION] WF.I.LIXOTOX, Friday
It is officially announced that His .Majesty tho King has approved the award of the King's Police and Fire Service Medal for gallantry to Sergeant Donald Austin for praiseworthy conduct in rescuing a woman from drowning in the Waikato River on November 15.
Sergeant Austin, who is now stationed at Tauranga, jumped into the Waikato River on the afternoon of November 15 to rescue an elderly woman who had fallen in from the Hamilton railway bridge. He was on duty in Victoria Street when the call came, and he hurried across the bridge, a distance of 300 yards, scrambled down a steep hank and, removing his tunic and boots, dived into the river. The sergeant had to swim some distance before he caught the woman, who was almost unconscious, and he then pulled her into the bank. Sergeant Austin suffered illness following the rescue.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23997, 21 June 1941, Page 10
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