MATE DEAD IN HIS BUNK.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 16 June 1926, Page 4

MATE DEAD IN HIS BUNK.

BTJiSHAEEN’S TRAGIC DISCOVERY. AT CAAIP BEHIND HTTRLEYVILLE. George Rowland; a married man with six young children, whose home is in HurleyviHe, died suddenly in a bushmen’s camp behind that settlement the night before last, .presumably from heart failure. _ With two companions, T. Conwell and C. Hamblyn, Rowland went into the bush on Monday to make a start on a felling contract. The day was , devoted to making camp, and work on the job was to have begun yesterday morning. Twice during-the night his , companions heard Rowland call out. to quieten his dogs, but lie was apparently sleeping when they rose and busied themselves with preparations for breakfast. They called him once or twice, but received no reply, and did not trouble further until the billy was boiling. Then one of the pair stopped over to rouse their mate. He was dead. „ , Conwell and Hamblyn went out- to Hurleyville to report the happening to the police, and a party of bearers was formed; to assist in bringing the body over the. three miles of rough bush country. This task proved a formidable one, and several of the beared were knocked up before the township was reached at about- 5.30 p.m. The» the body was taken on to Pa tea for inquest to be held. Rowland, who was a man of about 40 leaves a widow and six children, the eldest being only ten years of age.