TO SAVE LIFE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 43, 20 January 1936, Page 2

TO SAVE LIFE

RACE BY MONOWAI, AN OCEAN DRAMA. (United Press Association; —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Sun Special* by Radio 'from Monowai.) Received January 18. 1.40 p.m. , SYDNEY, Jan. 18. With the Royal Mail and 382 passengers aboard, the Monowai is rushing north in a big deviation from her trans-Tasman course to rescue an urgent and dangerous appendicitis case on Lord Howe Island. Late last night Captain Davey turned the ship northwards after an exchange of radiograms with Sydney and Lord Howe Island. It is not know whether the case is a man or a woman. The Monowai is now speeding at 18 knots though loaded to the Plimsoll. and she expects to reach the island at 5 o’clock this evening. Captain Davey has asked the Administrator of Lord Howe Island to arrange tor a launch to be sent out with the patient, as owing to the absence of charts he will not stand in too close to the island. Tlie Monowai is becoming known as the Royal Mail rescue ship. About two years ago she went to the rescue of a Finnish apprentice on the barque Flavell in the South Tasman, thereby saving the life of Lauri Grunlund, for which Captain Davev received the Finnish knighthood of the White Rose. At 9.5 this morning the radio operator received an urgent message saying the condition of the patient was worse and that an immediate operation was necessary. Dr. T. P. Walker, the ship’s surgeon, has prepared an operating theatre. A doctor and two nurses are aboard as‘passengers.