PATIENT’S FLIGHT
CLAD ONLY IN NIGHT ATTIRE. DISAPPEARANCE FROM HOSPITAJ . (Per Press Association — Copyright.) TE KUITI, April 26. -i. woman .patient in the Te. Kuiti Hi'bpital, clad only in her night-at-tire,; -d'isippeared from the hospital r;t about II o’clock last night. Immediately her absence was discovered the doctor in charge organised a search party of about 60 men who were at-
tending a dance. The possibility that the woman might be walking on the railway line, which is only i?. short distance from the hospital, was cor.i-idered. A party was despatched to intercept a train due and/was walking along it. "Although the train wn. :; travelling and worn the driver, but. in the meantime the woman had reached the line fairly slowly the woman was knocked down and seriously injured. Her condition thii* evening was stated to be vc v v serion,s.
The wenuvn lwd been a rati cut in the hospital frr about a week,and was convalescing after a miner operation.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1933, Page 6
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