N.G. Native Receives
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R.H.S. Bronze Medal
From Our Own Correspondent
Thursday Is., March 2.
ON behalf of the Governor of Queens land, Alderman A. Corran, Mayor of Thursday Island, has presented the Royal Humane Society’s bronze medal to a New Guinea native, Tabu Hero, who is em ployed by Messrs. Farquhar Pty. Ltd. of Thursday Is.
The conspicuous bravery was car ried out in the cyclone of March two years ago off Cape York Peninsula, when Tabu Hero saved several other seamen whose luggers had foundered. The party swam for no less than 31 hours, and after vainly endeavouring to land on Low Island, eventually reached the shore at Cape Tribulation. From there Tabu walked 15 miles to obtain help for his com rades, none of whom had eaten for three days.
Mr. C. H. Karius, Assistant Resident Magistrate in the Papuan Administration, arrived in Sydney with his wife by the Tanda on March 27. On short leave, they made the round trip from Rabaul to Japan: and have now taken a flat at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, where they will spend the remaining five weeks. Iji April, 1929, Mr. Karius received the Royal Geo graphical Society’s medal in recognition of his journey with Mr. Ivan Champion up the Fly River, Papua, and across New Guinea to the coast, via the Sepik River.