AIR SERVICES

Evening Star, Issue 23700, 7 October 1940, Page 2

AIR SERVICES

HOSPITAL PATIENT FLIES TASMAN [Pee United Press Association.] 'AUCKLAND, October 6. For the first time since the Tasman air service was inaugurated, one of its flying boats, the Awaxua, was used to carry a hospital patient, who travelled , the whole way on a stretcher. Tlla passenger was a young man, Mr A. E. Butterworth, who was accompanied by his father. Mr J. G. Butterworth, a farmer, of To Rore, near- Pirongia, King Country. Mr Butterworth, sen., took his son to Sydney by steamer soma little time ago for examination by surgeons with a view to a possible operation. It was decided, however, that , the latter should not he performed. Although there .were 14 other passengers in the flying boat, space was found for the stretcher, and the uatienfc was made perfectly comfortable, his father and a steward tending him throughout the trip. On arrival, he was placed in an ambulance, whicli took the father and son to Hamilton. CLIPPER FURTHER DELAYED. Delayed again at Noumea by mechanical trouble, the Pan-American Airways Honolulu Clipper is expected to leave for Canton Island early tomorrow morning on the second stage of her northbound trip. The Clipper left Auckland on Friday, after being delayed for six days'because of unfavourable weather and later mechanics' trouble.