RENDEZVOUS AT SEA
MEDICAL SUPPLIES FOR FREIGHTER (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 20. Auckland shipping company officials and an. officer of the Health Department travelled from Paihia by launch yesterday to make a rendezvous off Cape Brett with the Port Line freighter, Port Fremantle, which is carrying three men suffering from pneumonia. The ship, bound from New York to Brisbane,, advised earlier in the week that ,the patients were seriously ill and the vessel was diverted to pick up medical supplies. The launch met the ship at 7.15 p.m. in choppy seas and the supplies were passed up the side of the Port Fremantle. A message from the ship stated that the patients were improving rapidly. The vessel re-1 sumed its voyage at 7.45 p.m...
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1946, Page 6
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