FALL TO DEATH
600 FOOT DROP OVER CLIFF. (Per Press Association.—Copyright.) .GISBORNE, August 22. While returning from a visit to a friend at Whareongaonga on Sunday afternoon, Mr Francis Charles Porter, aged 52,'a\widower and a P.W.D. employee, fell from a path on the side of a steep cliff'and dropped, 600 feet to his death. He was not noticed 'missing until 'Monday evening/ when, with Constable Andrew (of Bartletts), a search was made. A sack found on the’track gave : an indication of.the. whereabouts of the deceased,, and the searchers went to the bottom of the steep face . and there found Porter’s body. His fall was apparently checked after having fallen about 100 feet ? as his. false teeth were found in a pool of blood 100 feet from the track. The task of. the- searchers was a difficult one, and after bringing the body to the track by means of ropes it was necessary to carry the body on a .stretcher three and a half miles to send it to Gisborne. ; . . Mr Porter was formerly well-known as a jockey, and had ridden some great % champions of the N.Z. turf, notably Count Cavour, He is survived by one married daughter.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1939, Page 5
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