OPERATION AT SEA
SHIP’S BOATSWAIN INJURED BOTH WRISTS BROKEN. BOATS CHANGED IN MID OCEAN. (United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 2.45 p.m., to-day. SUVA Jan. 25.
At eight o’clock last Friday evening the Niagara, when between Honolulu and the equator, received a wireless message from the Wailijemo stating that a seaman was injured on hoard, and suggesting his transference for medical treatment.
The Niagara changed her course 85 miles west and met the Waihemo at one in the morning and the man was transferred in the Waihemo’s boat on a stretcher under a searchlight lrom the Niagara. Special gear hoisted him aboard and the Niagara then continued the voyage to Suva. The injured man is Hadaway, the Vailiemo’s boatswain, who fell 25 feet down an open hatch to :m iron deck, breaking both wrists and cutting his eye and badly bruising his body. As the ship’s doctor was ill an acting doctor and l two passenger doctors set Hadaway’s wrists and he is progressing well.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 January 1929, Page 9
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