LONG TREK TO AID MAN INJURED IN FALL OVER CLIFF

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 April 1949, Page 4

LONG TREK TO AID MAN INJURED IN FALL OVER CLIFF

(P.A;). NAPIER, April 15. A seven-mile journey on foot which took five hours to accomplish was undertaken by a party of six persons, including an ambulance officer and a nurse, to bring to the Napier Public Hospital early this morning a scrub cutter who had been injured in a-fall over a cliff. He is Maxwell Warren, aged 36. While returning to' his camp at the back of Tutira, 40 miles north of Napier,' with a- party last evening after visiting a nearby settlement for stores, Warren’s horse missed its footing and crashed down a 50-foot steep incline, carrying Warren with it. The horse was killed in the fall, but Warren escaped with a fractured right* wrist and probable internal injuries. Warren was unable to move, and a members of the party went to the nearest homestead and communicated with an ambulance, which arrived at 9.30 p.m. Then began a trek of three miles and. a half over rough country with a stretcher to rescue the injured man. After an ardous journey the party arrived back at the homestead at 2.30 a.m., and an hour later Warren was in hospital.. A remarkable feature of the accident was the fact that a nine-and-a-half months baby, Which Warren was carrying on his saddle, was caught on a cut manuka stump and did not follow the horse and rider down the slope.

LUCKY ESCAPES IN TIMARU SMASH

(P.A.) TIMARU, April 15. Two young men had a fortunate escape from serious injury when a light truck in which they were travelling got out of control going down the hill on the Otipua road near Saltwater creek, Timaru, about 8 o’clock on Thursday evening. The truck struck an electric power pole after rounding a bend. The hood was torn off and the truck travelled a few yards along a bank on the side of the read and then went through a gorse fence, finally coming to rest in a paddock. Both occupants were able to walk away.

MOTOR-CYCLIST HURT IN COLLISION

(P.A.) GISBORNE, April 15. A motor-cyclist, Geoffrey Leonard Needham, aged 19, was sent to hospital last night in an unconscious condition, suffering from serious head injuries, which he received in a collision with a car.

Needham, whose home is in Whakatane, had been working for seven or eight months in Gisborne as a clerk in a mercantile firm. The motor-cycle Was.badly damaged'. The hospital reports the condition of Needham to be serious.