RESCUE FROM DROWNING
BRAVERY RECOGNISED BY HUMANE SOCIETY BRONZE MEDAL PRESENTED The deliberations of the Mount Roskill Road Board were temporarily suspended last evening, when Mr. J. E. Cowell, J.P., representative of the Royal Humane Society, introduced Mr. Charles Laxton and requested the chairman of the board to present him with the society’s bronze medal. Mr. Lawton, he said, was a resident of Hillsborough, in the Mount Roskill district, and on December D last year, while bathing off the Opotiki beach, Mr. Laxton had rescued a young man named Walter Wilkins, who had got into difficulties and was drowning in the surf. The facts had been duly attested by eye-witnesses and forwarded to the Royal Humane Society, with the rej suit th?t Mr. Laxton’s bravery had i been duly recognised. The chairman of the board, Mr. E. F. Jones, expressed his pleasure on : behalf of the residents of the district j in investing Mr. Laxton with the token of his heroic action. Mr. Laxton was the recipient of the individual conI gratulations of the board’s members.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 771, 18 September 1929, Page 11
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176RESCUE FROM DROWNING Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 771, 18 September 1929, Page 11
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