TRAGEDY IN BUSH.
MAN'S BODY RECOVERED.
MOST STRENUOUS TASK. (Prom Our Correspondent.) WANGANUI, Wednesday. Following arduous work, the body of Mr. Henry Wiliiam Marchart, Talbot Street, Wanganui East, who vraa accidentally shot while wild-pig hunting on Sunday in bush-clad mountainous country in the Omahuna Valley, nearly 2o miles inland from Waverley. was brought to Wanganui yesterday by Constable G. A. Baskin. It wrs necessary to use a packhorse to convey the body to Xukuhau Junction.
Constable Baskin said it had been a most strenuous task to get the body out. It had to be carried two miles in bush-clad country 'before a paekhorse could be used. A point 20 miles from Waverley was reached on Monday nS<;ht. and the body was brought from there to Wanganui yesterday.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 224, 22 September 1938, Page 5
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