NEW ZEALANDER TO NURSE SICK SAILOR

Chronicle (Levin), 23 July 1946, Page 2

NEW ZEALANDER TO NURSE SICK SAILOR

"A vouag Australiun suilor, dos- ' pcrntolVill with T.B., will bc volun- . tarily nursed 24 hours a day by a pretty ' guaf-flian angel ' on his 11,U00- . niile voyago lioiue, '' reads a inessago t'runi New i ork. New Zealaiulers xvill be-int'erested to leara that the "guardian augel '' is Nola Luxford, former , actress, newspapor eorrCspondent, and : soeial welfare organiser in New York duiing the war. Formerly of Palmerston North,* Ncfla' Luxford has been liyiug in America for many years and is well lcnowii as a writer of Hollywood doiugs and personalities. Nlauy New IZealand. scrvieenien knoiy liei' as tlie i'o'iulller and" hard-wnrking presidont of •the Anzae Club in New York. The stTickcri sailor is 19-ycar-old KonaUl Machin, of Perth. 1 lUsa.Lujifard.is paying her own w.ay out to Ausfralia, and is even Ibarning mirsing, just to see that helpless, bed- : ridden Machin gots back home to his family, slates a New York eorrespondent. . - . , Machin Was -a. Scaman on a Norwogian merchant ship and was taken 1 from Ihe- ship'in Baltimore more tlian ' 12 nionths ago with tubcrculosis. Bor nionths he was helpless in Baltimore Ilospitnl until Afiss Luxford lieard ,of his plight and arranged that he be brought to Staten Island ITospital, New York, where she has since helped tend hiin. "T was going to make a trip home to New Znnlarid, anyway," said Miss Imxford, ''and it isn 't too nnieh for me to go on to Australia.'' " ITe has been ]dcading to get home for nionths, but we eouldn 't get him a ship," , she said. "At last we gofc hini a herth on the troopship Nlarine Pnleon, but he eould onlv mako the trip if a nnrSe went with him. " We tried to raise £(>2:"» to pay a inirse. but • eouldn 't. As it would mean the k'd eonldn 't get home, T dec.idcd.to lake him ont • mvself. "