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Do any Coasters know anything that may have led to my late husband, Noel Carpenter being awarded this medal? He only mentioned the award briefly years ago, but no details. I recently found the medal and plan to pass it on to his only grandchild as a memento of his swimming achievements. Noel grew up in Dunollie until moving to Rotorua in the mid sixties. Any information would be greatly received.
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Do any Coasters know anything that may have led to my late husband, Noel Carpenter being awarded this medal? He only mentioned the award briefly years ago, but no details. I recently found the medal and plan to pass it on to his only grandchild as a memento of his swimming achievements. Noel grew up in Dunollie until moving to Rotorua in the mid sixties. Any information would be greatly received.
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CommentsTina Taylor
Bronze medallion, bronze star, award of merit. We had to learn mouth to mouth resuscitation, CPR, how to tow someone in the water with a sort of sideways kick. How to tread water for a fixed length of time. At the higher 2 grades I think it was fully clothed. Each level had a distance you had to swim. I can't remember what strokes. We also had to learn how to release ourselves from someone grabbing us around the neck because they panicked. Was loads of fun, fitness and good life skills. I did mine in the 70s.
Diana Paku
That is a bronze medallion.
Tania Lee Somervail Beynon
Pretty sure that is the Bronze Medalion, next would be the Bronze Star. They were/are? awarded for lifesaving. These would of been gained and awarded after completing the first 2 certificates.
Glenn Johnston
I have one from my early high school years. It was for swimming competence and proficiency at water related life saving skills. The qualification before this was one the Intermediate Star. I went up from Hokitika to Greymouth for the test at the old baths there though I think we had expected the swim test to be an open water one as was often the case. Perhaps the sea was considered too rough or the river was in flood that day so we copped an easy timed distance swim in the pool. (You had to swim a distance in under a certain time - the switch in venue suited me fine as I was a capable distance swimmer but slow in open water though ok at calm water pool swimming)
JA LE
I think there was a medal called the bar to bronze as well. Maybe it was just the bar.
Raeone Wallace
i have one of these it is for passing your bronze medal in life saving you had to pass 2 exams to get it great to have
Marcia Lumsden
These were awarded at High School. Once a year examiners would come to the school and test . It was not compulsory. I cannot remember exactly what was required of us but only the best swimmers would pass their testing
Lyn N Moe
I remember Noel and his father George, Im fairly sure Noel had a old Dodge car. Did he go away and become a Traffic cop.
Lyn N Moe
I remember Noel and his father George, Im fairly sure Noel had a old Dodge car. Did he go away and become a Traffic cop.
Michele Thomson
George Carpenter worked at Hunter and Party private mine with my Dad Jock Quinn.
Kp Chiew
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/.../Bronze_Medallion_(New...
Bronze Medallion (New Zealand and Australia) - Wikipedia
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Bronze Medallion (New Zealand and Australia) - Wikipedia
Bronze Medallion (New Zealand and Australia) - Wikipedia
Lynne Brown
Bronze Medallion I think after passing skills in the pool. Noel lived not far from me in Dunollie, I was good friends of his sister Judith.
Linda Howard
I have one with a bar on.
Janaka Mary Bartlett
My Dad had a similar medal. He would of turned 99 last June.
Tania Lee Somervail Beynon
Pretty sure that is the Bronze Medalion, next would be the Bronze Star. They were/are? awarded for lifesaving. These would of been gained and awarded after completing the first 2 certificates.
Ruth Naylor
Reefton District High School when Fred Barltrop was the Headmaster, he taught us Life Saving and we were examined for our Life Saving skills many pupils passed their Bronze medallion. I have one 1961.
Tina Taylor
Bronze medallion, bronze star/cross, award of merit. We had to learn mouth to mouth resuscitation, CPR, how to tow someone in the water with a sort of sideways kick. How to tread water for a fixed length of time. At the higher 2 grades I think it was fully clothed. Each level had a distance you had to swim. I can't remember what strokes. We also had to learn how to release ourselves from someone grabbing us around the neck because they panicked. Was loads of fun, fitness and good life skills. I did mine in the 70s.
Bronze medallion, bronze star, award of merit. We had to learn mouth to mouth resuscitation, CPR, how to tow someone in the water with a sort of sideways kick. How to tread water for a fixed length of time. At the higher 2 grades I think it was fully clothed. Each level had a distance you had to swim. I can't remember what strokes. We also had to learn how to release ourselves from someone grabbing us around the neck because they panicked. Was loads of fun, fitness and good life skills. I did mine in the 70s.
Diana Paku
That is a bronze medallion.
Tania Lee Somervail Beynon
Pretty sure that is the Bronze Medalion, next would be the Bronze Star. They were/are? awarded for lifesaving. These would of been gained and awarded after completing the first 2 certificates.
Glenn Johnston
I have one from my early high school years. It was for swimming competence and proficiency at water related life saving skills. The qualification before this was one the Intermediate Star. I went up from Hokitika to Greymouth for the test at the old baths there though I think we had expected the swim test to be an open water one as was often the case. Perhaps the sea was considered too rough or the river was in flood that day so we copped an easy timed distance swim in the pool. (You had to swim a distance in under a certain time - the switch in venue suited me fine as I was a capable distance swimmer but slow in open water though ok at calm water pool swimming)
JA LE
I think there was a medal called the bar to bronze as well. Maybe it was just the bar.
Raeone Wallace
i have one of these it is for passing your bronze medal in life saving you had to pass 2 exams to get it great to have
Marcia Lumsden
These were awarded at High School. Once a year examiners would come to the school and test . It was not compulsory. I cannot remember exactly what was required of us but only the best swimmers would pass their testing
Lyn N Moe
I remember Noel and his father George, Im fairly sure Noel had a old Dodge car. Did he go away and become a Traffic cop.
Lyn N Moe
I remember Noel and his father George, Im fairly sure Noel had a old Dodge car. Did he go away and become a Traffic cop.
Michele Thomson
George Carpenter worked at Hunter and Party private mine with my Dad Jock Quinn.
Kp Chiew
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/.../Bronze_Medallion_(New...
Bronze Medallion (New Zealand and Australia) - Wikipedia
EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG
Bronze Medallion (New Zealand and Australia) - Wikipedia
Bronze Medallion (New Zealand and Australia) - Wikipedia
Lynne Brown
Bronze Medallion I think after passing skills in the pool. Noel lived not far from me in Dunollie, I was good friends of his sister Judith.
Linda Howard
I have one with a bar on.
Janaka Mary Bartlett
My Dad had a similar medal. He would of turned 99 last June.
Tania Lee Somervail Beynon
Pretty sure that is the Bronze Medalion, next would be the Bronze Star. They were/are? awarded for lifesaving. These would of been gained and awarded after completing the first 2 certificates.
Ruth Naylor
Reefton District High School when Fred Barltrop was the Headmaster, he taught us Life Saving and we were examined for our Life Saving skills many pupils passed their Bronze medallion. I have one 1961.
Tina Taylor
Bronze medallion, bronze star/cross, award of merit. We had to learn mouth to mouth resuscitation, CPR, how to tow someone in the water with a sort of sideways kick. How to tread water for a fixed length of time. At the higher 2 grades I think it was fully clothed. Each level had a distance you had to swim. I can't remember what strokes. We also had to learn how to release ourselves from someone grabbing us around the neck because they panicked. Was loads of fun, fitness and good life skills. I did mine in the 70s.
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West Coast New Zealand History (8th Oct 2024). Bronze medallion, bronze star, award of merit. In Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved 24th Mar 2026 03:59, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/34096