SHIP’S WIRELESS EQUIPMMENT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 89, 31 March 1926, Page 6

SHIP’S WIRELESS EQUIPMMENT

SAVES LADY PASSENGER’S LIFE. Nelson, March 31. During the Arahura’s passage from Ne'son to Wellington on Monday night a lady passenger was stricken with a sudden and serious illness. There being no doctor aboard, the wireless operator described the symptoms to a doctor in Wellington, who gave instructions as to treatment which, with the assistance of a lady passenger and a chemist who happened to be aboard, were systematically followed. Further, when the vessel arrived at Wellington the medical man who hact been called again when the vessel was coming in at the heads was on the wharf awaiting the arrival of the patient, who was then taken to a private hospital. It is felt that had it not been for wireless and the precautions taken, death would probably have occurred.

No trace has yet been found of the bodies of W. Hamilton, of the crew of the steamer Invercargill, and the other man (believed to be Alexander Alitchell, the Smithfield horse-trainer) who were drowned in the Wanranui River on | Friday. A Durie Hill resident states 1 that he was crossing the bridge in his ■car when he saw a man in an overcoat and with a piece of rope round his neck gazing through th© rails which senarate the traffic from the footway. The motorist stopped his car at the end of the bridge, intending to run back but the mnn climbed the pornpet nnff leant ’ into the river before he could reach I him. Another witness states that he was near enough to recognise the man as Mitchell whPR he jumped from the bridge.