ORDEAL IN CAVE.
FARMER. SERIOUSLY HURT. Electric Telegraph—Press Association HAMILTON, November 24. As the result of a fall of 30 feet from a ledge in a limestone cave near Honikiwi, a farmer, Mr Thomas Hogginson Bond, aged 52, married, of Xeraumauku Road, near Otorohanga, fractured his skull and suffered d-her injuries. With a picnic party of neighbours, Mr Bond was exploring tne cave which is in a gully at the rear of his property. The party was passing along a narrow ledge above a deep crevice several chains from the entrance to the cave when the ground collapsed under Mr Bond’s feet. He fell down a steep and rough slope on to 'the rocks at the edge of an underground stream. Six of Mr Bond’s companions experienced great difficulty in reaching the injured man, and only after strenuous exertions were they able to hoist him on their shoulders up the sheer rock face. Daylight streaming through a hole in the roof of the cave assisted the rescuers.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12208, 26 November 1932, Page 7
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