FOR VALOUR.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12936, 29 November 1909, Page 5

FOR VALOUR.

ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY'S MEDALS. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, November 28. The following medals and certificates were awarded at , a meeting of the Court Directors of the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand to-day : -.—. — Mrs A. J. Knox and Mrs H. Knox (two Maori women), bronze medals for rescuing Tamaiti Hakaraia from drowning at Otaki. James S. Tonkin, silver medal 'for rescuing Harold Funke and Bert Jones from drowning at Napier. Frederick Bechmann, silver medal for rescuing a man named Mollen from drowning at Takapuna. Geral Scobie, framed certificate for rescuing Cecil Bear from drowning at the mouth of the Paparima River, Riverton. Kesten Cornell ussen and Sigurd Olsen, certificates for rescuing' Peter Jacobsen from drowning at Auckland. Charles C. Cathro, Edem H. Jones, Henry W. Martis, and Arthur W. Larsen, certificates for rescuing three men from drowning in the Wanganui River at Castlecliff. Mrs Jacobs and Mrs Hope, stewardesses of the ill-fated Penguin, in memoriam certificates to next of kin. Harold Hende, certificate for rescuing Alexander Saraty from drowning in the Big Wanganui River, South Westland. Robert Darroch, an officer on the Ulimaroa, silver medal, for rescuing William Graham from drowning in Wellington Harbour. P. C. Warburton, certificate for saving a girl from drowning at Sumner. Elsie Coutts, framed certificate for rescuing an infant from drowning at Otatara. Albert Cross, certificate for rescuing Eileen Brown from drowning in the Avon River. Corporal T. W. Paine, bronze medal for rescuing Sapper John Hastie at Devonport. Martha Berry, silver medal for the re»tiit of Kileen and Noel Taylor from burning at Blenheim. a. H. Owles, bronze medal for rescuing a boy from drowning at New Brighton.