SUNDAY ISLAND
SHIP'S RECENT VISIT SICK MAN EMBARKED A DIFFICULT UNDERTAKING A call at Sunday Island was made early on Tuesday morning by a vessel, which has arrived from the islands, to take on board a Public Works Department employee, Mr. John Charles Stephenson, who was suffering from an internal complaint. The ship's boat had great difficulty in getting the sick man on board in the heavy surf at the island. The boat was backed in close to a rock on which the patient lay in a stretcher and with the aid of a wire rope he was slid on to the boat. On bo.'rd the ship he received attention from a doctor. Mr. Stephenson was admitted to the Auckland Hospital in a serious condition on his arrival at Auckland. The ship was signalled to go into a cove to pick up the sick man by the weather station at the island. A case of beer, tobacco and. newspapers which was sent ashore from the ship was dumped in the sea attached to a line from the shore and was hauled in by this means.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23839, 14 December 1940, Page 10
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