FATAL FALL.
DOWN A GORGE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT MELBOURNE, July 10. .!’• Charles varloy, while mountaineering at Mount Buifalo, fell down a gorge, and it is believed he lodged on a ledge 400 feet down and 600 feet from the bottom of the gorge. Desperate efforts are being made to rescue him. One member of the rescue party lowered 150 feet of rope over the cliff, but the rone is not Ion." enough to reach the ledge where- it is believed Dr. Varley is lying. The weather is hitterlv cold.
„ Later. Dr. Varley’s body has been recovered. ,
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 July 1924, Page 5
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