USEFULNESS PROVED
West Coast Air Service Although it has not been operating a month, the air service run in South Westland by Air Travel (New Zealand) 3 Ltd. has already proved ifs usefulness. Tbe great advantage which its operation has conferred on the district was shown ou Thursday afternoon, when Flight Lieutenant J. C. Mercer, the pilot, arrived at Bruce Bay in the course of his normal operations and found that his crother. Mr. C. B. Mercer, a well-known niining engineer, had met with an accident. He had been riding a horse which had fallen into a ditch, breaking one of its rider's legs. Tbe accident had happened an hour before tbe, aeroplane’s arrival, and hi .ess than three hours after the occurrence the patient was in Hokitika Hospital. Without tbe air service Mr. Mercer would not have reached hospital for three days, travelling.by road, without considering tiie possibility that, the road journey would have been delayed greatly by flooded rivers. Within 12 hours Flight Lieutenant Mercer had,a second call to the same district, to bring out a sick child of one of the settlers.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 105, 28 January 1935, Page 10
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185USEFULNESS PROVED Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 105, 28 January 1935, Page 10
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