MEDAL FOR RESCUER
HUMANE SOCIETY AWARD FOR DEVONPORT GIRL HIGHEST HONOUR GIVEN Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. Tho Royal Humane Society’s gold medal has been awarded to Miss Eila Monro, of Devonport, Auckland, who, on February 23, at Muriwai Beach, rescued three persons from drowning. Three bathers were in difliculties off the beach owing to tho undertow, and Miss Munro brought them all ashore one by one. She was almost exhausted after the second rescue, but, undaunted, swam out again and brought In an unconscious man. “This is a. case of outstanding merit and worthy of the highest award we can give,” said the chairman, Mr. C. Morris, at a meeting of the Court df Directors of the Royal Humane Society toda y. Other awards made were as follow: Bronze Medal.—Thomas Richards, aged 29, for rescuing John W. Mulligan from a scrub tire. Mulligan died later from burns. Certificate.—Frank Charles Tattle, aged 20, who tried unsuccessfully to rescue a man from the surf at Tokomar u Bay. Betters of Commendation.—Leslie P. Fox, Wellington, and Mrs. Boris J. Harris, Devonport, both for rescues from drowning.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 964, 6 May 1930, Page 16
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183MEDAL FOR RESCUER Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 964, 6 May 1930, Page 16
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