EVACUATION OF SOLDIER
Illness During Exercise (NX. Press Association) AUCKLAND. Aug. 25. A soldier who became ill at exercises on Great Barrier Island was evacuated todav by private aircraft after a service plane had to abandon an attempt to land. All three services combined in the rescue after the soldier. Lance-Corporal A. V. Paris, of the Ist Battalion Depot, was found to have a high temperaI ture.
An Auster of the Army Reconnaissance Flight, left Whenuapai and, after encountering severe turbulence on the way to the island, was unable to land.
A Navy motor launch patrolling in the Hauraki Gulf was diverted toward the island. In the meantime arrangements were made for a Tourist Air Travel, Ltd., amphibian to pick up Corporal Paris.
He was taken to the naval hospital at Devonport. His condition later was reported Ho be satisfactory.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30839, 26 August 1965, Page 12
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