HEROISM AND SELF-SACRIFICE

NZ Truth, Issue 1230, 27 June 1929, Page 7

HEROISM AND SELF- SACRIFICE

Terror-stricken Women Tramped Hills To Safety PITIFUL NARRATIVES OF REFUGEES (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Commissioner) The dreadful story of Murchison, and not of Murchison alone, but also the many, many miles of surrounding countryside that has been laid waste by the furies of Nature, is tinned deeply with the dark shades of human distress, overcast with ruin so complete, so overwhelming 1, to the individual, as to constitute one of the worst local disasters since the pakeha first tilled New Zealand soil. A lifetime of work sYvept away at a single fell stroke; families, homesteads and cattle completely obliterated; and lands which had yielded pleasant success were torn and riven by the on marching hills, transformed into ugly wastes and smashed beyond recognition.