ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10587, 18 October 1910, Page 1

ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.

(Prat Press Association.) i 01m-ter?urcli,'Octobci 17. The annual meeting ~Of-thc-Couit of Directois of tlie Ro*al-Mumaae Socic'a of New .'Zealand was-* hold =lo-daj 'Artplipltion lor lrcugnitoon -was made o'ji behalf of Alice Wratfc (13 y<?ai >) and Hub}- 'Agues Wiatfc- 123 jeais) roi_ attempting to" J es'cuo .Elsie rait ears) from r di owning m the "\\airnakarui nvef on Jannarj 24th. 1910 'lt was decided to grant each of the fitst two named a lettei of commciidaApphcation was made on behalf of Albeit Edwin Bull (7 -years) ior lcscuing Violet Emily Bull (2J--yeais) from di owning at Peel Forest on May 14th, 1910 A ""framed certificate was gi anted Applicatioa w as' made on behalf of Thomas Robert MTherson (37 jears) for lescumg Edward Ciouch (38 jeais) fi om a fiie At Auckland on August 16th,' 1909 The Tacts of the case wcie particularly meutonous On the evening m question M'Pherson was passing the Strand Aicade, Auckland, when he heard a crash ol< glass, and saw a man and flames issuing horn the tlmd shop on the left side *' M'Pheison ran into the Thistle Hotel aid rang up the lire bngade On gaming the street he saw a handbig fall from-one of the windows, pud on looking no he saw a man on the M'idow =ill at the thud storey. The man was call in ■; for help M'Pheison took his hit and coat off, and scaled .the flic escape, which crih went lialfwm t.o tha bpflding. and finished the 1 a4cont In placing In? hards and feet in the racks m tho wall ' Altei that he - hid ' 12-inch cornice, "to mount and a 4ft ralisado, at the end of whicli was a finel Up mounted tliat, and was " then .'bio to teach the man, who was ' badh binned -and in g'eat pain Had the lescucd man stitigglcd there was nothing but certain death fat both les- [ can f»nd icscued The greatest hiaveiv had been displaced, -and it was decided < that the highest' award (the Stead medal) bo g'antdd This' is only the second occasion on which the Stead medal has been awarded, thefoimei recrpient-lieihg'' Sefgeairfe Eodiiiond;; a \ pblico officer. • "-'■'■' ■''■'■' ' ' _■'; j ■•■' Application, .was made on behalf of: ■ Douglas I '' P.ercival ; -M'OalhiTO-.(22 vyei£rs),> ; •foji- ■"rescuing-..-Leo^St'opiv-.0-ftli :(10 years) I fi'bm drowning 7 at':H6kitik& oil..June* 30th, - a.; framed certificate.- ;;--'■:. > '. ;" . ■ ;