MERCY FLIGHT
(N.Z. Press Association)
WELLINGTON, Feb. 16. A Royal New Zealand Air Force Hercules left Auck-
land tonight for Rarotonga to pick up a seriously injured man who requires urgent medical treatment at Auckland Hospital. The Rarotongan, Talmoo Tangepari, aged 20, whose parents live in Wellington, suffered serious head injuries three days ago in a motor-cycle accident on the Island of Mitiaro, about 130 miles north-east of Rarotonga.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31915, 17 February 1969, Page 20
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