MAN FALLS 200 FEET

Grey River Argus, 14 August 1934, Page 5

MAN FALLS 200 FEET

LONG SEARCH FOR HIM Remarkable Rescue (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, August 13. Nearly twelve hours of unremitting toil, all through Sunday night, were required for the rescue of Raymond Gill, aged 20 years, a resident of Whanganiomona, who fell over a cliff on Sunday morning, while pig-hunting. He had a remarkable escape, after falling nearly 200 feet down a steep slope. He dropped 60 feet over a waterfall.

Altogether 25 hours elapsed before he was admitted to the Stratford Hospital, suffering from severe shock, and bruises. The accident occurred in some of the wildest btish country in New Zealand.

The rescue party had to carry the unconscious man on a rough stretcher through dense bush, up a precipitous gorge. The most difficult part, however, was hoisting him up a cliff face. Though the accident occurred in the morning, Gill’s absence was not noticed till 4 p.m. It took the search party seven hours to find him, and it was 5.30 a.m. before Gill had been conveyed to a homestead. It is believed no hones are broken.