ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21836, 13 December 1940, Page 6

ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY

Awards For Bravery By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, December 12. Awards for bravery were granted to the following persons at a meeting of the Court of Directors of the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand today:— Certificates Eleanor Jane Wllberfoss, aged 16, of Wanganui, who on February 5 rescued a young girl from drowning in heavy surf at Castlecliff Beach, Wanganui. Jack Dixon Pepper, aged 29, of Hamilton, who on September 27 rescued a man from drowning in a heavy current in the centre of the Waikato River. Leslie Waters Seager, aged 37, of Wellington, who on October 4 dived into Wellington Harbour between a ship and the wharf to rescue a man who had had a heart seizure and fallen into the water. Bronze Medal Charles Lewis Olsen, aged 42, of Auckland, who rescued a man from drowning in Waitemata Harbour on August 28. He went out in a boat in very rough water, bent over to seize the man’s coat, and noticing the man’s teeth were in his throat, drew them out first, expecting every minute that his boat would swamp as water was coming over. Letter of Commendation Thomas McDonald Cushen, aged 17. of Invercargill, who on March 24 dived into a swift flowing river and, swimming about six yards, rescued a man from drowning.