RESCUE OF LIFE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 4, 25 July 1930, Page 4

RESCUE OF LIFE

A EAEE AWAED MADE. HUMANE SOCIETY’S GOLD MEDAL Tim T? . AtTCKLAJTO July 24. f ie Royal Humane Society of New Zealand has bestowed an unusual honour on Miss Eila Munro, heroine of the dramatic rescue of three persons from diowning at Mnriwai Beach in Febrnary asr. presenting her with the 7hl ( ; T , uf thp sodpfv - - rare award tlinl has been presented onh eie-ht times i„ New Zealand. * 5 Tins was accompanied by a letter of commends no from the Court of Directors of the Society. Mr i. E. Eagleton. the Auckland representa ive ~f the Royal Humane Society, who hand cd tiie letter to Miss Munro at Devonporr Inst e mning. said it was the first fnne that the Court of Directors a very conservative body, had issued a written commendation of the kind Miss Munro is. ie first woman' in New Zealand to be awarded the gold modal 0. the Society. The North Shore Amateur Swimming Club, which has elected Miss .Munro a life member organised a social function at De’vonport last evening in her honour. The ; gold medal has not often been awarded in New Zealanu. Mr I Knowles, of Napier, had the unique distinction of holding the Society’s bronze silver and gold medals. Mr Cory-Wright was presented, at Auckland, with the medal for a thrilling rescue near Taihoa when a vacht came to . *ief. He wa ß nine hours in the water.

-dr o. Moma, a miner at Thames, was awardee He Stead Medal for a brave rescue off Thames. A few weeks later he was blinded in a mine aceident. and later eked out an existence playing a gramophone around the streets in Auckland. He was one of Die victims of the ’flu epidemic. A Maori has also received a gold medal. Ho were caught on a sandbank b) a rapidly rising tide. Since the inception of the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand the following awards have been made: 124 letters of commendation, UI certificates, I4S bronze medals 8 gold medals an 25 "in memoriam'’ certificates.