THAR HUNTER INJURED
Struck By Boulders After Falls (From Our Own Reporter) TIMARU, Dec. 17. As Mr Peter Biczi, aged 24, a steward employed at the Hermitage, lay at the foot at a bank after falling about 10ft or more, two large boulders were dislodged, one landing on his legs, the other bouncing to hit him in the chest. A patient in the Timaru Public Hospital where he was admitted at 6 pm. yesterday, about four hours after the incident at Sawyers creek (about two miles from the Hermitage and running up to the Unwin Hut) Mr Biczi’s condition was reported today as satisfactory. He suffered a bruised left foot and a lacerated shin. Mr Biczi, with a companian, Mr lan Satterthwaite, of Timaru, was out hunting for. that. On the return journey he slipped over a bank, loosening rocks which rolled on top of him as he. lay helpless.
A rescue party of about nine men, including the Mt Cook National Park Board’s chief ranger (Mr K. Burke), set out from the Hermitage, and carried Mr Biczi out by stretcher. He was then evacuated by vehicle to the Mt Cook airstrip, and flown in a Cessna aircraft to the Timaru Airport at Levels.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29699, 18 December 1961, Page 17
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