RACE FOR DOCTOR
LUGGER DELAYED BY CYCLONE
Darwin, February 24.
In a race from Gouiburn Island to Darwin to secure a doctor to combat a measles epidemic, the mision lugger was caught in a cyclone and a trip which should have taken three- days was prolonged to twelve. The crew were almost exhausted on arrival at Darwin, food supplies graving given out. The Methodist missionaries on the island r-e fighting the epidemic. Four natives have died. A doctor is being dispatched.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 129, 25 February 1930, Page 10
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81RACE FOR DOCTOR Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 129, 25 February 1930, Page 10
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