NIGHT IN BUSH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23351, 17 November 1937, Page 9

NIGHT IN BUSH

INJURED PIG-HUNTER FALL OVER STEEP BLUFF DOGS ATTRACT ATTENTION After lying all night in the bush at Uruti with a severe injury to a leg caused by his falling over a 60foot bluff, Mr Ivan Briscoe was admitted to New Plymouth Hospital on Monday. He was found by a search party organised by Constable F. Lemm, of Waitara. Accompanied by his sister, Miss Hilda Briscoe, and Miss Kathleen Kinsella, Mr Briscoe set out from New Plymouth at an early hour on Sunday on a pig-hunting expedition at Uruti. They arrived at Moki road, which branches off the Uruti road, at about 6 a.m., and Mr Briscoe went into the bush, accompanied only by his two pig dogs. He took a rifle with him. WOMEN GIVE ALARM

The young women spent the day in walking along the edge of the bush and sitting in the car When darkness fell and their companion had not returned, they became anxious, but thought he might have lost his direction and decided to spend the -night in the bush. As dawn broke and still there was no sign of the missing young man, they became alarmed, and, after walking along the edge of the bush for a while, made for the nearest farm house. They telephoned to their parents at New Plymouth, and a search party was organised by Constable Lemm. TIMELY DISCOVERY MADE

Meanwhile, at the farm of Mr J. Miller, of Uruti road, one of the men was taking cows to the back of the farm. The dogs he had with him were barking, and they must have attracted the attention of the dogs with Mr Briscoe, for they, too, began barking. That is how the young man was found at the back of Mr Miller's farm. He had evidently come through the bush on to the bluff, sliding and slithering down part of the way and falling the rest. From there he crawled about two chains on cleared land. The distance from the farmhouse to the back of the farm is about two miles, and it was not until early Monday afternoon that he was brought to the house. In the meantime Dr G. P. Adamson had been called from Waitara, and an ambulance from New Plymouth had been asked for.