THE TE KOOTI TRAIL.
ACCIDENT TO “ ROUGH RIDERS.”
\\ HAKATANE, August 26. A rather serious accident occurred at White Pine Bush during the filming of the To K’ ati trail picture, suiting in Paoi Roia, a young rough-riding fihn actor, being admitted to the hospital in an unconscious condition through being thrown from a horse, which fell on him” With 30 other riders Paoi was negotiating a log-strewn piece of country, when he collided with two other horsemen. All three were thrown, but the others escaped with minor injuries. The accident was probably the result of the Natives taking a risk' to outdo tire American rough-riders.
The serial story on which the above film is based is at present running through the columns of the Otago Witness.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3833, 30 August 1927, Page 54
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126THE TE KOOTI TRAIL. Otago Witness, Issue 3833, 30 August 1927, Page 54
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