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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22219, 23 March 1934, Page 10

Within two hours of a call being broadcast for her, in London a few weeks ago, a woman was sitting at the hospital bedside of her dying brother, whom she had not seen for eight years. At 6 o’clock the following message was broadcast by the 8.8.C.: —“ Will Mrs George Tett. last heard of eight years ago in South Kensington, go at once to the University College Hospital, London, where her brother, Robert Dick, is lying dangerously ill? ” Twenty minutes later' the 8.8. C. received a telephone message from Mrs Tett, saying that she was on her way to her .brother. Mr Dick died late the same night. His sister was at his bedside. “We had completely lost' touch with my aunt,” Mr Dick’s son afterwards said. “ She had been in America for several years, and did not communicate with us when she returned. She did not even know my father was ill until she hoard the 5.0.5.”