SAVED MANY LIVES
WATERFRONT HERO IS REWARDED AT FIJI DROWNING AND FIRE RESCUES Reed. 1.5 p.m. SUVA, Today. The Legislative Council opened today. The Governor, Sir Murchison Fletcher, who presided, presented to Captain Edward Twentyman, harbourmaster of Suva, the badge (civil division) of a Member of the British Empire. The captain's record includes a gold watch for a rescue at a fire in 1884. He effected a gallant rescue of a drowning man at Capetown in IS9S and in Sydney Harbour he rescued a drowning man and received the silver medal of the Royal Humane Society, in 1919, at Levuka. Fiji, he rescued the master of the ship King Cyrus from poisonous fumes and received the silver medal of the Humane Society and the gold Stanhope medal for the most meritorious deed of the year. in June, 1929, he assisted in rescuing a drowning passenger off the Suva Harbour. A Fijjan boatman, named Aliki, also received the M.B.E. medal for assisting in the- last incident.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 970, 13 May 1930, Page 9
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