ADVICE FOR WIRELESS
Medical Aid for Islanders By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 13. A wireless call for medical advice and possibly medical assistance, was received from Fanning Island by the liner Aorangi, which arrived from Vancouver to-day. When the vessel was near the Equator en route from Auckland to Vancouver, a message was received stating that a woman on the island was about to give birth to a child, and owing to the doctor on the island having died two days previously, no person on the island was skilled in midwifery. The message was reported to Dr. E. O'Neill, the Aorangi’s doctor, and Dr. P. S. Foster, of Christchurch, who was a passenger on board. After the two doctors consulted together the advice required was wirelessed from the Aorangi to the island. Later on the voyage further wireless advice was received that the birth had been a success and that the mother and child were doing well.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 126, 14 May 1935, Page 9
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