NELSON DOCTOR’S DEATH
MEMBER OF BYRD ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. NELSON, October 3. Dr. Louis Hauti Potaka, who was brought from Takaka and admitted to the Nelson Hospital late yesterday afternoon , in a comatose and unconscious condition, died a few hours later from morphine poisoning. While going from Takaka he wrote a note saying that he had been suffering from a severe eye injury received in the Antarctic and had not had a proper sleep since January, 1925. “Death will be a relief,” the note said.
Dr. Potaka, who was 35 years of age, had been practising at Takaka for some years. He was formerly assistant at the Nelson Hospital and the board’s medical officer at Murchison. He joined the Byrd Antarctic expedition as medical officer in response to an appeal for relieving medical assistance. •
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21905, 5 October 1936, Page 10
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