BODY RECOVERED

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1933, Page 14

BODY RECOVERED

COMPANION'S EXPERIENCE

The inquest''into tlic death, of Theodore James King, the young schoolmaster who. fell from a steep cli.fi: on the West Coast, at' Nukuhakere, was opened before Mr. Percy Rose, Coroner, at' To: Kuiti, on Tuesday, states the "Auckland Star.','' After tho forma] identification of tho body'and hearing of the medical evidence, tho inquiry was adjourned, pending the recovery of deceased 's companion, Mr, G. P, Eyan, who is suffering from shock and exhaustion. , ' ~ ■' • .■•'■' : After scaling the precipice, following the recovery of the body' of his companion, Mr. Ryan fought his. way through dense bush and undergrowth to the hoirtbstead of Newton "King's sheep and cattle station, where ho arrived after,dark, thoroughly exhausted and cut and. scratched; Mr. Howard, the station manager, immediately organised a party, which reached tho ■vicinity of .tho fatality at midnight, but was forced to wait for, daylight before attempting .to bring the body up the face of the cliff. Transport along the beach for miles between Kintehero.and Nukuhakere is blocked by broken rocky cliffs, against which a rough surf breaks unceasingly. The only possible way out was by >the same track the two companions had traversed in- bright spirits a few hours previously. At 5 a.m. the journey over Moeatoa Mountain was commenced. It was a herculean,task. With stretcher almost perpendicular for hours, tho party boro the body up the mountain side winding through (the bush, rising to an altitudo of BQoft in twenty chains. The journey of, five miles to Mr. Loundy's sheep station at Kiritchero oecupicd eight hours. This was the point from which the trampers had sot out on Sunday morning after spondiiig the night with Mr. Loundy and family.