A TALE OF THE BACKBLOCKS
A store of endurance. pluck, and of bust comradeship is to hand from the Kin. Country. It concerns a. man named Herbert Worsiey, agc-d 55 years. He was engaged tree-foiling in a bush 20 miles from Jiauiimu on Monday, when a. tree fell on him, breaking and mutilating his thigh. Eight comra-dos set out at 5 o'clock, that afternoon to carry him on a long journ,-. over sleep mountainous country to Uau riinn. When i hey had .proceeded ti\ . miles they secured a trap, hut this broke down, owing to the - rough and broken nature of the country being traversed, and the parly had to abandon the vehiei" They continued their march, sometime.through dense hush, at other times over rough clearings of piled-np logs, and were, fmjuentlv wading up to thrir knees in mud. The night was bitterly cold, and the darkness in the bush wa-s a. great handicap, the whole party frequently stumbling over logs, missing their tooting, and falling down slopes. Worn out and fatigued, they i cached Itanrirnu at 6 o'clock yesterday, where Worsiey was placed in the train and conveyed to Hamilton Hospital.
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Evening Star, Issue 15539, 8 July 1914, Page 1
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192A TALE OF THE BACKBLOCKS Evening Star, Issue 15539, 8 July 1914, Page 1
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