TO SAVE LIFE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 35, 13 February 1929, Page 2

TO SAVE LIFE

DOCTOR TAKES PLANE. There is a young, girl at Scone who has to thank aeroplanes and aviation for her life. Yesterday it, was found that unless an operation was performed on her within a few hours her chances of living would be remote. Dr. Aspinall, of Sydney, was sum. moned, and making a hasty prepara, tion, ho left Mascot aerodrome at ,3.30 o’clpck. Sydney to Scone is a seven hours’ journey in the train, but modern aviation spanned the distance in ! less than half that time, for a few minutes before (5 the doctor was at Scone. The girl had to be brought in an ambulance from a town 24 miles out of Scone, and so fast had the doctor’s trip been, that when he arrived the patient had not yet reached tho hospital.

The operation was successfully performed.. This morning Dr. Aspinall received an urgent call from Sydney, so he again took the air as his fastest

means of transport. Leaving Scone at 6 o’clock, ho arrived at Mascot at 8.45, and reported at Sydney Hospital at 9.5.

Mr J. 11. Palmer, a well-known

amateur, piloted the machine, which was the Red Rose in which Captain

Lancaster and Mrs Keith Miller Hew from England to Australia.