Mercy Flight to Niue
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Niue Islanders watch the RNZAF Sunderland which flew from Suva to Niue in August to pick up 21-years-old Fatahetoa, who had suffered serious facial and eye injuries in an explosion (September RIM, page 40). Mrs.
Jean McG. Storck, whose husband took this photograph, reports that at Auckland Hospital, NZ, the sight of one of Matahetoa's eyes has been saved, and in late September there was hope of saving the other. Aircraft are almost as rare as snowflakes at Niue, and the alight ing of the Sunderland at Alofi Bay caused excitement among Niueans and Europeans alike.