BRAVERY RECOGNISED

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 72, 21 September 1935, Page 15

BRAVERY RECOGNISED

ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY

AWARDS FOR LIFE-SAVING

(By Telegraph—tress Association.) i CHRISTCHURCH, September 20. j The framed certificate of the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand was presented to Frederick Robert Flem-, ing, of Christchurch, by the president of the society, Canon W. S. Bean, at a meeting of the society's court of! directors today. • j Fleming, a boy of 14 years, attempted to rescue his father, Frederick Fleming, from drowning at Scarborough on February 10 of this year. He kept his father afloat until other help arrived. Among the awards approved by the' court were an in memoriam certificate and silver medal for the next-of-kin of Constable Charles H. Williams, who was drowned while attempting to rescue Miss Daisy Hislop from the Waikato River. Charles A. Clarke, who attempted to rescue both Constable Williams and Miss Hislop, was also awarded the society's silver medal. Other awards were:— Joseph McCreanor, framed certificate, for rescuing Lionel Honeybone and Frederick Shadbolt from drowning at Hurunui. Eric John Reynolds, bronze medal, for rescuing George Alfred Daveren from drowning in the Waikato River. Harold Thomas Lawn, silver medal, for the attempted rescue of Mrs. Esther Jane Newman from a burning aeroplane at Waiho. Martin Alluin, framed certificate, for rescuing Frank Moss from drowning at Bluff. George Dunston, bronze medal, for rescuing Jack Mooney, of Waihi, from drowning at Whititoa.