SAVED DROWNING BOY
MEDAL FOR CORNWALLIS RESCUER Last evening Mr. F. M. Langdon, of 119 Mount Eden Road, was uresented with the Royal Humane Society’s medal for saving life. The presentation was made by the Mayor of Mount Eden, Mr. E. H. Potter, at ire beginning of the Borough Council’s meeting. Tho Mayor described the act by which the society had been induced to award the medal. In January last, he said, a boy fell off the Cornwallis IVha:f into the Manukau Harbour. Mr. Percy White, who was standing nearby, went in to rescue him, but got into difficulties himself. An alarm was raised and Mr. Langdon. who was on tho beach, dashed out along the wharf and dived in fully dressed He reached the pair in the water after all three had gone down twice, managed to bring the boy to land. Mr. White was rescued by a boat which had put out from the beach, but he died shortly afterwards from exhaustion. There was no doubt that, but for the action of Mr. Langdon, the boy also would have been drowned.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 528, 4 December 1928, Page 7
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