LIFE SAVED
RADIO CALL HEARD WELLINGTON AMATEUR’S HELP (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Tuesday As a result of a Wellington amateur wireless operator Hearing an. appeal tar medical aid from Canton Island recently, assistance was sent from Honolulu to the island, which probably saved a man's life. The Wellington operator heard a wireless operator on Canton Island, which is in the Phoenix Group, endeavouring to communicate with Honolulu to ask for assistance for a man who was seriously ill with appendicitis.
As the Canton Island operator was unable to contact Honolulu, the operator in Wellington tried unsuccessfully to forward the appeal. He then communicated with the American ConsulGeneral in Wellington, who sent a cablegram to the Minister of the Interior at Honolulu. Within two honrs a doctor left by ship on the journey of approximately 1500 miles, to the island. The sick man was taken to Honolulu and has since recovered. About two weeks previously a man died before medical aid could be obtained. Although practically bare of vegetation. Canton Island has assumed importance recently because Pan American Airways is at present building a seaplane base on it.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20737, 22 February 1939, Page 8
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187LIFE SAVED Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20737, 22 February 1939, Page 8
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