RADIO SAVES LIFE
AN INCIDENT AT SEA SHIP DOCTOR'S SERVICE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. . Yet another instance of the use of wireless in saving life was recorded during the last homeward voyage of the lonic. The vessel's surgeon, Dr. Harries, boarded a Dunkirk steamer, the Germanic, in a rough sea and attended a member of the crew who was in a weak condition from loss of blood. When the lonic received a radio call a course was set for the Germanic, and the doctor transferred in a boat. One of the crew, a Frenchman, had had his hand almost blown off in an explosion, and an artery was severed. Fatal consequences ' were feared, but Dr. Harries soon made the sufferer comfortable.
The timely aid was promptly recognised by the Paris office of the shipping company, which sent Dr. Harries a set of sleeve links set in platinum.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17230, 9 April 1930, Page 7
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