FAMILY'S VAIN FIGHT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19727, 29 August 1927, Page 10

FAMILY'S VAIN FIGHT.

WOMAN'S FATAL ILLNESS. SPECIAL TRAINS AND PLANES. [from our own correspondent. J 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 Cudmore, wife of a well-known grazier of Warialda, in the north west of tbe State, and who as Miss Bessie Walker was one of the best-known society girls in Sydney, became ill on ber return tq 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 days 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 urgently, so Colonel Walter 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 serums was ordered from the hospital, This tinio Mrs. 'Cudmore's " brother, Mr. Edward Walker, hired a Moth aeroplane and lie also flew to Warialda in a few hours. But despite these, superhuman efforts to save her life, Mrs. . Cudmore sank lower and lower and died at nine o'clock on Sunday night.