TREACHEROUS BUSH COUNTRY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14662, 4 May 1948, Page 3

TREACHEROUS BUSH COUNTRY

FAUHAN G A MAN’S experience it- For Two Days At Omanawa {rerne Cold, Hunger And Exhaustion lie trials experienced by a Tanga resident, Mr F. J. Bremner, Bhe was lost in the Omanawa i for two and a-half days, after jailed to return from a pig-hunt-expedition there last Wedncs- , wgre recalled by Mr Bremner a questioned yesterday. £ referred to the extreme cold, jer and exhaustion that he ered when struggling through bush towards the Omanawa Is power house. When separated n his companions he had disfly heard three rifle shots, and answered by firing a shot from ,22 calibre rifle. This had arently gone unheard, he said. Nothing - To Eat

|,Bremner shot one of a group jigs on Wednesday, but had no S'e with which to r,kin it. "I did ilfepl very hungry then anyway,'' Med. The next day Mr Bremried to eat fern roots but found extremely unpleasant. He , unable to find anything else to [during his stay in the bush. ly of Mr Bremner's experiences will hazy in his mind, p he reached the Omanawa P.. he thought that he would Ms way out of the bush within m but as he worked his way to [alls, ha found the country very pa. When it was impossible to »the river because of various Wes, he found extreme diffi- | m scaling the cliffs to progress tier.

Mad great difficulty in stopis himself from falling asleep pin precipitous countrv, and he afraid that if he did so, he poll down a cliff into the river f< He does not remember W now he slithered clown a 1 2nd a 30ft decline, as previ- | reported. . f suffered severe lacerations to * and feet. Mr Bremner m he was first lest when he pe confused over two different

-'Friday evening he had sighted ea "ng but had decided to ststv in Mh for the night and find"his out m the morning, when he Ifjond by Mr Albert Peterson, Mhis original companions on "ranesday morning.* Compass Essential griencGd bushmen now £V dvise all scortsmen to be pea, with a compass for their L«? when entering the 1(5? b V sh or an y other bush m\u ran S es around TauBL • s extreme dangers of C"f in that country because greacherous formation was an h«on to those who assisted in gen for Mr Bremner, said resident afterwards. accom Panying' the : jywsed. parties which enterkn!, bush in search of Mr kS G ? me of the men felt eS / ortun ate to find their L«i before dark,.the bushman