CRASHED ON LANDING
* AIR AMBULANCE 'i . _ . . V- • ''■ • ' * ' [from OUR OWN' corkesfoxdext] SYDNEY, August 5 ' After a lightning 200-mile dash to Norseman, Western Australia, to sat# an injured miner from total blindness, an air ambulance trashed through a fence, hit a stump, and tore a wheel off. putting the machine out ol action? The miner was Mr. Alex. McDoiig > whose left eye was blinded in. t»e war ami who suffered excruciating when a fragment of rock pierced 1 living a swift Vega Gull, Pilot (ionfee Lewis left Kalgoorhe niiniedi-ately-hc heard of the accident to, tne air ambulance, and rushed the in . man 'direct from Norseman to t eriu (400 miles) for treatment by a spec ai ist, who might bo able to sate ° V This week the air ambulance has travelled 4000 miles *>n sucM' o^ 11 last-.trip was to the lonelv Hand's mission station, 500 in' e* of m last outpost in central \W«n Auslßilia, when a missionary • lh- _ K. was stricken-Jfl-ough landing ground J Vi, ' s at the mission for the fjist „ aU ge to k," there, and the ii-V-. - mid bo arranged 'f , o] , t robe smoke from a stack of which had been set, Jfcj
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23117, 16 August 1938, Page 12
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