LOST IN TARARUA RANGE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 172, 17 April 1937, Page 14

LOST IN TARARUA RANGE

Young Man Spends Night in the Bush SEPARATED FROM HIS COMPANIONS Dominion Special Service. Palmerston North, April 16. .Separated from his companions, a young married man named Albert Jenkins, of Albert Street, Palmerston North, spent last night in the Tararua Ranges, and walked out this afternoon near ‘Eketahuna, 30 miles away from where he entered the ranges at Katarawa Gorge. “I am glad to be back; it is none too pleasant sleeping in the open,” said Mr. Jenkins to “The Dominion” when he arrived home at eight o'clock to-night, after being absent for more than 30 hours. “When we got separated I thought it best to light a fire and spend the night in the open instead of tramping about in the dark and exhansting myself. Besides, it is too easy to break a limb wandering about in the dark.” Sir. Jenkins said his companions, Messrs. Anderson and Grier, and he, entered the ranges at noon yesterday, but had no luck until 5.30 p.m.. when they took separate trails after a stag. Unable to locate his companions, he decided to camp the night. This morning he started his walk out in dense fog and heavy rain. It was so bad, he said, that even if he had landed a sixteen-pointed he would have left it behind rather than carry it in under such conditions. It was too rough and dangerous. Mr. Jenkins was none the worse for his experience, but he was sorry he caused anxiety to friends and relatives, who had no means of knowing what bad happened to him.