HOSPITAL PATIENT
ON TASMAN FLYING-BOAT
(By Tek'juapli—Press Association.l
AUCKLAND, October 6.
For ihe first, time since the Tasman Air Service was inaugurated, one of its flying-boats, the Awarua, was used to carry a hospital patient. who travelled the whole way on a stretcher.
The; passenger was a young man,- Mr. A. E. Butterworth. who was accompanied by his father, Mr. J. G. Butterworth. a farmer, of Te Rore, near Pirongia, King Country.
Mr. Butterworth, sen., took his son to Sydney by steamer for examination by surgeons, with a view to a possible operation. "It was decided, however, that the operation should not be performed.
Though there were 14 other passengers in the flying-boat, space was found for the stretcher and the patient was made perfectly comfortable. His father and a steward tended him throughout the trip. On arrival he was placed in an ambulance which took father and son to Hamilton.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 85, 7 October 1940, Page 5
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