RACE TO HOSPITAL
AMAZING STORY OF DRIVE.
MELBOURNE, December 10,
An amazing story of a dying man’s five-mile drive -. to hospital yesterday afternoon, was told to-day by authorities at liokewood Cottage Hospital, near Ballarat.
Councillor Donald McKay, a -wellknown grazier in the district, reached the hospital in a state of collapse, and died within an Four. ' He told the hospital authorities that he had been out droving sheep near Dereel, which is a township about five miles from Ballarat, whe n he began to feel dizzy, and fearing a heart attack immediately headel his buggy for the Rokewood Cottage , Hospital ~ Only the exercise of tremendous will power could have got him through, for by the time he got to the hospital Ills right side wo entirely paralysed, end he was barely able to hold the reins in uis left hand.
Councillor McKay was nearer to his home than to the hospital at the time he became ill, but he sensed that it was serious, and determined to reach, the hospital. *
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1933, Page 5
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