Two NG Natives Awarded RHS

Medals

FOR acts of bravery, two Rabaul natives have been awarded medals by the Royal Humane Society of Australia —Tomat, a silver medal, and Tokalule, a bronze one.

Half a dozen natives were bathing at Pila Pila, near Rabaul, last January, when one (Tiut) was attacked by a shark.

Tomat went to his aid, dragging him from the shark by the wrist. Helped by Tokalule, he brought Tiut to the shore, but the injured native died later in hospital, from his lacerations.

Mr. Stan. Clarke, of Koranga, New Guinea, recently married Miss Phyllis Crouch, of Wau, at Wau Roman Catholic Church, TNG.

Rev. H. S. Cocks, BA, who was Angli can chaplain to the Australian troops who took German New Guinea in 1914, died in England last month. He was at Rabaul for a number of years.