PERSONAL

Opunake Times, 17 August 1948, Page 2

PERSONAL

Constable H. Shields Jnr., is at present on leave from Auckland and is spending a few days with his parents, Constable and Mrs. H. Shields, Opunake. District training College students, including Miss B. McLaughlin, Opunake, Miss Ai. Duff'v, Pikama, and Mr. «J. Shields. Opunake, are at preseat home on vacation.

Members of the newly-consti-tuted Taranaki Maori Trust Board, appointed by the Govern-or-General in terms of the Maori Purposes Act, are notified in the latest issued of the Gazette as Messrs. Wirihana Tawake (Waitotara), Teri Erueti Tekenui Pihama (Oeo), Tahurangi Taihamua Pihcpa (Opunake), Rakaherea Woodbine Pomare (Lower HuttJ, Poiete Eotu (Pukearuhe) and Hana famaka (Hawera). T. J. Reid aged 11£ years, on 13th January, .1948, at the Whakatane River mouth swam 20 feet through the strong current to the rescue of a little boy who had fallen into one of the deep holes and had sunk for the second time. As soon as Reid reached him, he clutched Reid's neck. Reid broke the grip and struggled back with him to the shore. But for the timely action of Reid, there certainly would have been a drowning.—The lad was awarded the Bronze Medallion by the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand in June.