FAMILY’S VAIN FIGHT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 236, 2 September 1927, Page 9

FAMILY’S VAIN FIGHT.

WOMAN’S FATAL ILLNESS. SPECIAL TRAINS AND PLANES. SYDNEY, Aug. 19. To save the life of one of its brightest members, a well-known Sydney family used special trains and aeroplanes to transport relatives and serum in vain. Mrs Ken Cumore, wife of a wellknown grazier of Warialda, in the north west of the State, and who as Miss Bessie Walker was one of the bestknown society girls in Sydney, became ill on her return to her husband’s station after a visit to her parents, Colonel and Mrs J. Walker, of Rose Bay. An operation for appendicitis was performed, but Mrs Cudmore’s condition became worse.

Mrs Cudmore’s mother-in-law, her own mother and a brother-in-law chartered a special train, in which they rushed to Warialda. Another train took the sick woman’s sister, Dr Addie Walker, a few day’s later. Mrs Cudmore’s condition continued to become worse and last Saturday morning it was so low that special serums were ordered from one of Sydney’s largest hospitals. They were wanted so urgently, so Colonel Walker hired an aeroplane, in which he flew to Warialda with them.

The ’plane took less than five hours to do the journey, which by the ordinary means of transport takes 24 hours. Early on Sunday morning there had still been no improvement in Mrs Cudmore’s condition and another supply of serum’s was ordered from the hospital. This time Mrs Cudmore’s brother,^Mr Edward Walker, hired a Moth aeroplane and he also flew to Warialda in a few hours. But despite these superhuman efforts to save her life, Mrs Cudmore sahk lower and lower and died at nine o’clock on Sunday night.