DOCTOR’S DEATH
OVERDOSE OF POISON By Telegraph—Press Association NELSON, October 3. Dr. Louis Hauiti Potaka, who was brought from Takaxa and admitted to the Nelson Hospital late yesterday afternoon in a comatose and unconscious cond’tion, died a few hours later from poislning. While en route from Takaka he wrote a note stating that he had been suffering from a severe eye injury received in the Antarctic and had not had a proper sleep since January 1929. "Death will be a relief,” the note stated. Dr. Potaka, who was 35, had been practising at Takaka for some years. He was formerly assistant at the Nelson Hospital and the board's m< .'.leal officer at Murchison. He joined the Byrd Antarctic expedition as medical officer in response to an appeal for relieving medical assistance.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20540, 5 October 1936, Page 13
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