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Otago Witness, Issue 3854, 24 January 1928, Page 38

“It seems an extraordinary thing, r.s there was just a sporting chance that ihete may have been life left in the_ body,” said the foreman of a jury at Napier, whe 1 an inquest was held in connection with a man who was found dead, hanging by the neck. A witness who made the discovery said that he did not cut the body down, as he thought that he had no right to interefere in the absence of the potice. Ho had always understood that it was a citizen’s duty in such cases to leave matters as they were, and immediately notify the police. The anchorage now used in Ngawhakawhitu Bay, in Tennyson Inlet, by the Tamahine on her week-end trips to Pelorus Sound is described as a delightfully picturesque spot, a forest fringed basin, backed by the towering Lookout Peak ‘(says the’ Marlborough Express). The depth of this placid pool is such that the Tamahine is able to approach with startling nearness to the bold, beech-clad headlands. There are some 20,000 acres of national forest reserve in the locality, in which there are some of the finest nikau palms and puugas to be seen anywhere in New Zealand. Australian visitors who were amongst the passengers on the Tamahine’s last trip were delighted with the maze of scenic charm of the New Zealand bush as represented in the Sounds.