MOTHER’S RACE AGAINST TIME.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)

MOTHER’S RACE AGAINST TIME.

Effort to Save Son’s Sight

(Times Air Mall Service.) LONDON, June 24. A mother’s 7500-mile race against time by air to save the sight and possibly the life of her four-year-old son reached its final stage yesterday, ■when Mrs A. Wilson, of Durban, arrived at Southampton from South Africa in the Imperial Airways flyingboat Centurion, says the Daily Mirror. Her boy, who looked pale and ill, accompanied her. Recently he was taken ill with meningitis. His mother took him to a wpecialist in Johannesburg, who told her that unless the boy was operated

lon within a certain time he would lose his sight Snd his life would be in grave danger. The timo is up to-night. Mrs Wilson deoided io bring her son to England for the delicate operation, to be performed by a famous surgeon in Edinburgh. Mother and son flew from Durban to Alexandria, and there transferred to the Centurion, in which they completed their journey to Southampton. They went on to London by train and travelled to Edinburgh by night. The operation is to be performed immediately after their arrival.