REWARDING THE BRAVE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 176, 24 January 1914, Page 3

REWARDING THE BRAVE.

| IICMAXIC SOC.IKTYS MF.DA .s'. j SKYF.RA'. AWAKD's. 1 By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchnrch, La .1 Night. The council of the Koyal Humane Society met to-day and considered the folj lowing eases:—George Tasiuan Dawson, aged 41) years, for rescuing ten employees from death at Colae llav on October 20, I ill;!. Dawson was conveying logs from the bush to Mas-ey's sawmills atColac Bay. by mean of locomotive and trollies. One of ih" bridges collapsed, the locomotive and trollies being precipitated into the gully (a drop of 311 ft). ami Dawson being amongst the debris, with his right arm torn out of its socket, the right hip badly injured, and both' legs and hands scalded.'which remler-d him unconscious. After gaining consciousness he dragged himself up the steep side of the gulley and over logs, in order to save the lives of other bu-h----men whom he knew would soon be following on their jiggers, lie managed to place' an S by 5 piece of wood on the lail to warn them of the danger, and then again became unconscious. When the men subsequently arrived, he was still da/.cdand in aseiiii-coiiieious condition. 'A rough stretcher was constructed, and Dawson conveyed to bis home, three miles distant. Diui'-nn was grunted the Stead gold medal, the highest award that can be given. To Kric 11. Ilatershili, aged 111 years, for rescuing Xorman Ryan, aged 14 years, from drowning at Waipawa. on September 30 last, a bronze medal was granted. Frederick Hairy Karl, an A.IS. on the stranded steamer liulrabarah, who attempted to swim through the heavy breaker* with a line attached to hi's body, with the object of establishing cnmmniiicatkn with the shore, for the purpose of passing the crew of the vessel, and who was rescued with much difficulty by Mr W. A. Adcock, the second officer, a bronze medal was granted. To Jens Mariu-- Mnthcson, aged 1:) years, and William (!. Beckett, aged 1(\ years, for leciiing Mrs Keywortli and Dorothy Kcyworth from drowning it Tlikepu beach, Tclovus Sound, on October It) last a bronze medal was granted to each.