ARDUOUS JOURNEY
AMBULANCE WITH PATIENT 150 MILES IN SIX HOURS CLAY ROADS AND BEACH A difficult trip over four miles of clay roads and two and a-half miles of soft beach was undertaken yesterday by a St. John ambulance, which answered a call to Wattle Bay, where a woman had fractured her thigh. Dr. R. S. Whiteside, of Waiuku, who was called on Tuesday night, could not reach the injured woman, his car having been stopped in a soft patch on thp beach. He telephoned the ambulance station at midnight, advising that an ambulance should be sent at sis o'clock yesterday morning, when the tide would hare fallen sufficiently to permit the vehicle to proceed along tlsfi beach. The ambulance was despatched «i soon as possible, and the patient waii admitted to the Auckland Hospital! shortly after mid-day yesterday, the ambulance having covered 150 miles in about six hours, travelling over difficult roads.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23221, 15 December 1938, Page 14
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153ARDUOUS JOURNEY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23221, 15 December 1938, Page 14
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