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w FALL DOWN ROCKY FACE ACCIDENT NEAR LAKE TE ANAU (FBXSS A»»0CIAT10» INVERCARGILL, November 13. As a result of an accident on the track over the Dore Pass, which runs from . Glade House at the head of Lake Te Anau to Cascade creek on the Eglinton Valley road, Hugh Craw ford, aged 24 years, died from injuries and exposure. He was a son of Dr. A. F. Ritchie Crawford, of Invercargill Crawford had fallen down a P rocky part of the track when he returning from Glade . companion, John de rw,nrt ployee of the Public Works Depart Sent When de Lambert reached Crawford he had severe head m juries and a broken arm. It was snow ing heavily and bitterly c , old- r , Lambert did what he could for Craw ford and then went off to get assist an When the relief party, organised by Glade House, reached the spot where Crawford had been left on the track over the pass, Crawford was already dead,
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21940, 14 November 1936, Page 16
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