AEROPLANE AS AMBULANCE
FIRST N.Z, CASE. PATIENT TAKEN TO AUCKLAND. [By Telegraph, Per Press Association.) • , GISBORNE, July 22. What is understood’to be the'first t case of a New Zealand aeroplane being used as an ambulance, occurred this morning, when Canon H. Packe left Gisborne at 8.15 in. the Gisborne Air Transport Company’s cabin plane en route to the hospital at- Auckland. Packe, who had been an inmate of the Gisborne hospital for some weeks, was ordered treatment by a specialist, but his condition- made the road journew inadvisable and efforts to obtain a passage onan overseas liner were frustrated owing to rough seas.. Then it was decided to utilise an aeroplane, the machine being partially converted to enable the patient to travel in the maximum of comfort. • • ' ‘
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1931, Page 4
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127AEROPLANE AS AMBULANCE Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1931, Page 4
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