NIGHT IN BUSH

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1937, Page 10

NIGHT IN BUSH

INJURED PIG HUNTER

After lying all night in the bush at Uruti with a severe injury to a leg caused by his falling over a 60ft bluff, Mr. Ivan Briscoe was admitted to New Plymouth Hospital on Monday (states a New Plymouth correspondent). He was found by a search party, organised by Constable F. Lemm, of Waitara.

Accompanied by his sister, Miss Hilda Briscoe, arid Miss Kathleen Kinsella, Mr. Briscoe set out frqriv New Plymouth at an early hour on a pighunting expedition at Urutl. They, arrived at Mpki Road, which branches off .the Urutl Road, at about 6 a.m. and Mr. Briscoe went into the bush, accompanied only by his two pig dogs. He took a rifle with hinv -

The young women spent the day In walking along the edge of the bush and silting in the car. When darkness fell and their companion had not returned, they "became anxious, but thought he might have lost his direction and decided to spend the night in the bush. As dawn broke ani still there was no sign of the-missing man, they became alarmed, and,, after, walking along the edge-of the bush for a while, made for :the nearest v farmhouse. They telephoned their parents at New Plymouth, and a, search party was organised ;by Constable Lemm. Meanwhile, at' the farm .of 'Mr.- J. Miller, of UrutiEoad, one of the men was taking cows to the back :of;:the farm. The dogs he had with him Were barking.and they must have attracted the attention: of the dogs with Mr. Briscoe, for they, tpo, began' barking. That is how the young man was found at the back of Mr. Miller's iarm..; He had evidently come through the'bysh on to the bluff, sliding and slithering down part of the way arid falling the rest. From there he crawled about two chains on cleared'land. The. distance from the farmhouse to the back of the farm is about two miles, and it was not until early on Monday afternoon that he was brought to the house.