A MOTHER'S INSTINCT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 145, 20 June 1940, Page 8

A MOTHER'S INSTINCT

DERHAPS the most far-sighted •*• woman aboard the ill-starred Niagara was thp mother of three young children. When it was realised that the ship would have to be abandoned she hurriedly collected a vacuum flask of hot water and a tin of food for her youngest, aged only eight and a ■ iialf months* Some hours after the ship went down a young man and a young woman might have . been seen mixing up baby's hot breakfast, and a very contented young fellow, devoured the contents of his bottle and went happily back to sleep again.

I __l "I was feeling the strain a bit,!' admitted Mr. Browne when telling of the final rescue by a vessel. . He had been given a seat in the wheel hoiise until they were put on board the ship that brought them to port. "I' had great pleasure when I was leaving that ship," he said, "in shaking the hand of Captain Martin and telling him what all the passengers were thinking—how splendidly he and his ship's company had managed everything in the emergency." Mr. Browne, who, until his retire- - ment 20' years ago, was farming at Palmerston South and in the vicinity of Hamilton, left Auckland to-day with members of his family who live at Gisborne. "I was going on a health trip to Suva," he said. "I've had it!"