Suicide Of European Nurse
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From Our Own Correspondent APIA, June 4.
A EUROPEAN nurse, Miss Esther Han sen, apparently committed suicide on May 31. She left the Apia Hospital nurses’ home in the late afternoon os tensibly to have a swim in the sea near Fagali’i. When she failed to return, a police search was undertaken, but no trace of the missing woman could be found. Some of her clothing was found on the beach at Fagali’i.
Later a letter was found in which Miss Hansen stated her intention of committing suicide. Her body has not yet been found.
The Island schooner, Ranui, made a mercy call at Niue Island in early May with urgently needed medical supplies and lettter mail. Essential drugs had been exhausted two weeks before the vessel arrived—on its first attempt to reach Niue, the Ranui developed engine trouble and had to put back to Auckland.