PERIL AND PLUCK.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 19 December 1913, Page 8

PERIL AND PLUCK.

A TEACHER'S EXPERIENCES

Miss Maclean, of the Kakatahi school, had ? it appears, an unenviable and perilous experience when coming to town on Tuesday* She discovered that not only were the roads blocked by slipsi but, thai streams had swollen to such an extent that to cross would be extremely dangerous. She was riding one horse and driving a ''packer," which carried on its back her worldly belongings. The stormlncreased in fury as she proceeded towards Wangatui, her objective, and she simply had no other alternative but to push on. On the trip she had to encounter many hardships, and it serves to show what is constantly taking place in, the lives of the "way backs." At one streaml the water was running, so strongly that to attempt to cross wo\ild simply be to court disaster, and probably death, so with resourcefulness she put the horses to the stream, and she hejself got over with great di&culty by means of the branches of willow trees 'S egai& mg session of her horses on the other side, she made tracks across oountry i over different stations, and eventually, she eqded her arduous aSd perilous journey by safely reaching Wanganui (says the Chronicle) 0-cmng