SICK MAN AT SEA
MONOWAI DIVERTED FROM COURSE (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. The liner Monowai, bound from Sydney to Wellington, made a wide diversion from her course yesterday to take a sick man off the Finnish barque Favell. Late on Saturday the liner Aorangi, bound from Sydney to Auckland, received a wireless message from the Favell asking if she could go to her assistance and take off a man who was thought to be suffering from appendicitis. As the- Monowai was much nearer the barque, a message was sent explaining the position. At an early hour yesterday morning the Monowai, having been given the barque’s position, altered her course. The liner came alongside the Favell at 7 o’clock, and the sick man was transhipped in a boat, after which the ship headed on her course for Welling-
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 30 April 1934, Page 4
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