OLD FOREST RANGERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20968, 3 September 1931, Page 10

OLD FOREST RANGERS.

SURVIVOR IN AUCKLAND.

"NO OTHERS LEFT NOW."

The belief that hje was the last of von Tempsky's famous Forest, Rangers was expressed yesterday by Mr. John Gil* lander, of 40, Carlton Gore Road, when referring to the death this week of Mr. G. Veart, another old Ranger. At one period Mr. Gillandwr served as voii Tempsky's orderly. ' There are no others left now," he said. -. Mr. Gillander, who will be 84 jjprs old on Januaty 3, was born in No|| Scotia and arrived in New Zealand 10 1856. A'few years lat?r, while servinjC his apprenticeship to a Parnell, he joined "Pitt's Four Hundred,' a body of militia, and saw. active service in the. Waikato. SubsequeiW he joined the Forest Rangers and too part in the historic eight-days' rnaren through trackless bush around Mo Egmont. Provisions ran short and three pack horses were killed for food. When hostilities broke out again ® Taranaki Sir. Gillander enlisted in the 5 Division of the Armed Constabulary and. took part in the relief of tn® garrison near \Yaihi, Taranaki. Maoris fled into the bush when tbfe relief party arrived. He was aiso at th. attack on the busl, of Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu, when von temp skv was killed. . _ , 9 , Mr. Gillander recalled having acte a witness in the claim made by Mr. , tor a Maori War Medal. Sir. \eart . not secure a medal, however, served under an assumed name, a ru he adopted when deserting from the s on which he was a member ofjthe cry in order to go to the West Coast- i diggings.