NIAGARA TO RESCUE
BO’S’N’S BAD INJURIES TAKEN ABOARD AT NIGHT AT SEA (Australian and N.Z. Press AssociationJ Reed. 11.42 a.m. SUVA, To-day. At S o’clock in the evening the Niagara, which was then between Honolulu and the equator, received a wireiess message from the Waihemo that a seaman had been injured aboard and suggesting his transference for medical treatment. The Niagara changed her course, and after 85 miles met the Waihemo at 1 o’clock in- the morning. The man transferred in the Waihemo’s boat in a stretcher under a searchlight from the Niagara. Special gear was rigged to hoist him aboard. The Niagara then continued her voyage to Suva. The man is named Hadaway, and is the Waihemo's boatswain. On Friday morning he fell down an open hatch 25 feet on to an iron deck, breaking both his wrists and cutting liis eye. His body was badly bruised. As the ship’s doctor was ill an acting doctor and two passenger doctors set Hadaway's wrists. Pie is now progressing well.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 571, 25 January 1929, Page 1
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