SHIP RACING TO PORT
TWO MEN SERIOUSLY ILL
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 18. Carrying two men seriously ill with pneumonia, the Port Line’s 8000-ton motor-ship Port Fremantle is making all speed to reach Auckland by Thursday afternoon, having been diverted on a voyage from New York to Brisbane to land the sick men. If required, stocks of penicillin supplied by the Health Department will oe flown to the Port Fremantle by one of the two air-sea .rescue Catalinas stationed at the Mechanics Bay base as soon as the ship comes within aircraft range.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24982, 17 September 1946, Page 6
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