ARDUOUS JOURNEY
BACK-COUNTRY RESCUE MAN AND CHILD FALL FROM HORSE PA NAPIER, Apl. 15. A seven-mile journey on foot which took five hours to accomplish was undertaken by a party of six persons including an ambulance officer and a nurse, to bring to Napier Public Hospital early this morning a scrub cutter who had been injured in a fall over a cliff while returning to camp at the back of Tutira, 40 miles north of Napier, with a party last evening after visiting a nearby settlement for stores. , ~ Tlr A horse ridden by Maxwell Warren. 36 missed its footing and crashed down a 50-foot steep incline, carrying Warren with it. The horse was killed in the fall but Warren escaped with a fractured right wrist and probable internal injuries. Warren was unable to move for pain and a member ot the party went to the nearest hornestead and communicated with the ambulance which arrived at 9.30 p.m. Then began a three and a-half-mile trek over rough country with a stretcher to rescue the injured man. After an arduous journey the party arrived back at the homestead at 2.30 a.m. and an hour later Warren was lying in hospital. . A remarkable feature of the accident was the fact that a nine and a-half-months-old baby which Warren was carrying on his saddle became caught on a cut manuka stump ana did not follow the horse and nder down the slope.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27057, 16 April 1949, Page 10
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238ARDUOUS JOURNEY Otago Daily Times, Issue 27057, 16 April 1949, Page 10
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