VALUE OF AIR SERVICES
SERUM TAKEN, BY PLANE BRISBANE, Feb. 20. The value of air services in flood time in North Queensland was demonstated to-day, when an urgent call was received at Townsville from Ayr for serum to treat a tetanus patient in the hospital. g Owing to the floods no trains were run- * ning, and the pilot, Mr; N. C. Croucher, took off from Townsville in the Airways of Australia 'plane Captain Flinders, with serum. On reaching Ayr he found the aerodrome, submerged. The golf links were also unsuitable for landing, and so he flew low over the town and dropped the package near the State School, where it was safely retrieved.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18955, 4 March 1936, Page 14
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113VALUE OF AIR SERVICES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18955, 4 March 1936, Page 14
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