BRAVERY REWARDED.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1259, 13 October 1911, Page 3

BRAVERY REWARDED.

(Per Press Association.) / CHRISTCHURCH, last night, Tlie Court of Directors of the Royal Humane Society- for New Zealand have made the following awards: — Silver medal to Charles A. Cowan for rescuing James McLeod from drowning at Auckland, February 3rd, 1911. Silver medal to George H. Voyce, for rescuing Thomas H. Gardiner from drowning at Lyttelton on July 22nd, 1911. Bronze medal to Clarence C. V. Davies, for , rescuing A. S. McPhail and John D. ' Conell from drowning 'at Waingongoro beach, on April 2nd, 1911. A framed certificate to Cecil Ellison for rescuing William Carlew and Alfred Hart from drowning at Wellington on May 14th, 1911. A certificate to Albert Dent, for rescuing Harold Payne from drowning at Whangarei on June 26th, 1911. A certificate to Kenneth G. B. McLean, for rescuing George Nixon from drowning at Auckland on November 30th, 1910. WELLINGTON, this day. His Excellency the Governor, Knight of Justice of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, yesterday afternoon, at Government House, presented Police Constable Sleeth with the certificate of honor of the order of bravery, in rescuing a child from certain death. Lord Islington said that in compliance with a command from his Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, Grand Prior of St. John of Jerusalem, in England, he had much pleasm-e in conferring upon Constable Sleeth this certificate in recognition of his conspicuous bravery. On November 6th last a tramcar from Lambton. Quay was travelling towards Willis street, when a small child ran in front of it. The constable rushed across the street, and pulled the child from almost underneath the wheels of the car, and in doing so endangered his own life. By his courageous action he had saved the child from what otherwise would have been perhaps a most distressing death. The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, in addition to the various institutions connected with it, both for ambulance work nursing, and charitable aid undertakings, had established an award of various degrees for acts of gallantry in attempting to save life. This was annually presented by the Grand Prior to those* who had earned them and were resident in England, but when the recipient was resident in one of the dominions of the Empire, as in the present case, the Grand Prior asked the Governor of the Dominion, as the King's representative, to present it on behalf of his Royal Highness. This he had great pleasure in doing, and in offering his congratulations to the recipient.