BRAVERY REWARDED.
AN OUTSTANDING ACT.
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WELLINGTON, Sept. 12. Mr H. H. Sterling (General Manager of Railways) to-day presented to Mr Cyril Vincent Mills the Royal Humane Society’s bronze medal for an act of bravery in rescuing four men from drowning at the entrance of Porirua harbour on December 30 last. Mr Mills, who is connected with the railway mechanical department, set out in a choppy sea in a small dinghy and at great personal risk landed four of the six men of the boat safely on the shore, two being unconscious, while the other two were lost. “One can understand an act of bravery on the impulse of the moment, said Mr Sterling, “when the danger is not realised, but this incident was not one of those. In the faco of obvious risk, he went out as his deliberate duty and wo must stamp it without any other evidence as an outstanding act of bravery.” Mr Mills also holds the Mons star and the “Croix de Guerre.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 244, 13 September 1929, Page 7
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170BRAVERY REWARDED. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 244, 13 September 1929, Page 7
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