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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4579, 27 June 1923, Page 1

Recently a nurse and six bushmen proved their unfailing courage and strength of endurance by an admirable action. In a remote part of Gippsland, Victoria, a woman lay very ill and in need pf immediate medical aid. The bush nurse was sent for, and rode 40 miles, but on reaching the patient found that nothing could be done without a medical man. Delay meant, death. It was impossible for a horse or vehicle to travel across such country, thick with tangled undergrowth and felled gum trees. Six bushmen in the vicinity volunteered. They placed the sick woman on a litter and carried her sixteen miles across this wild country at night amid pouring rain. For the full sixteen miles bush nurse Dorothy Allmpnd walked beside the litter, attending to the sick woman’s needs. The party reached the doctor just in time to save the life of the patient, but, at the end of the journey they themselves were thoroughly exhausted. People of the town are collecting subscriptions to reward the brave party, and they look with admiration upon the courage and endurance bred by the