ACCIDENT ABOARD A SHIP.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1929, Page 5

ACCIDENT ABOARD A SHIP.

INJURED .MAN TRANSFERRED TO NIAGARA.

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

SUVA, January 25

At eight o’clock last Friday evening the Niagara,' when between Honolulu and the Equator, received a wireless message from the Waihemo stating a seaman was injured on hoard and suggesting a transference for medical treatment. The Niagara changed her course 85 miles west and met the Waihemo at one in the morning. The man was transferred in a Waihemo boat in a stretcher under searchlight from the Niagara and special gear hoisted him aboard. The Niagara then continued her voyage to Suva. The injured man is Hadaway, the Waihemo boatswain, who fell down an open hatch 25 loot to an iron deck, breaking both his wrists. He received a cut eye and bis body was badly bruised. ' As the ship’s doctor was ill, the acting doctor and two passenger doctors set Hadaway’s wrists and he is progressing well. Bishop Cleary is returning homo 1/V the Niagara.

Junes Taylor, a veteran sled driver, is a passenger by the Niagara, witli 15 Alaskan dogs to join the Byrd expedition. He was five years with the North-west Mounted Police in the Yukon and travelled 9,000 miles from the original home of the huskies.