MEDALS AWARDED.
Heroes of Progress Wreck Recognised. BRAVERY AT ISLAND BAY. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 1. Last night his Excellency the Gover-nor-General presented the Royal Humane Society medals to several residents of Island Bay in recognition of their brave conduct in connection with the wreck of the steamer Progress last May. Silver medals were presented to Constables Hammond and Baker, and to Claude Petherick and Raffaalo Alfano. Bronze medals were presented to Peter Isbister, Salvi Volpicelli, Salvi Greco, Hugh Lupi, Cataldo Mazzala, Andrew George Tait, T. *A. Humphreys, Raffaelo Pirsico and Ernest Connor. Ilis Excellency shook hands with each recipient and congratulated him and at the conclusion led the audience in three hearty cheers in recognition of their conduct. His Excellency also announced that he had been advised by the Secretary of State for the Dominions that his Majesty the King had been pleased to award the King’s Police Medal to Constables Hammond and Baker for their conspicuous the only circumstances under which the medal is ever given. The medals had not yet arrived, but as soon as they reached the Dominion he would be pleased to hand them over. The announcement was received with
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 364, 4 March 1932, Page 4
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