GENERAL CABLES
MEDICAL AID AT* SEA. (United Press Association.—ByElectrio Telegraph.--Copyright.) (Received this day at 11 a.m.) 1 LONDON, September 9. The liner, lomc, which lias arrived from Wellington, received in mid-ocean a wireless appeal for medical aid from ihe French steamer- Germaine. A surgeon treated a seaman for wounds caused by ail explosion, and advised the Germaine’s captain to land the patient at Bermuda. TANKER. ON FIRE. LONDON, September 9. A passing .ship wirelessed the North Foreland station that an unknown tanker was on fire off Dunkirk. The crew were taken off by another ship. It later wirelessed the crew were standing by and refused assistance, except if the ship exploded. NEW ZEALANDER’S PREPARATIONS. LONDON Sept. 9. R. G. Simmers, a New Zealand Meteorologist, is sailing to-day on the naval survey ship Kellett, to test a pilot balloon, Theodolite, which is being used in the Antarctic aboard the Discovery. The apparatus is for measuring the strength and direction of tiie upper uir currents. He returns on 12th. Sept, and goes, to CapitOtvn'on 2jth. Sept, to joiii, the Discovery.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1929, Page 5
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