DEERSTALKER'S PLIGHT

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13540, 19 April 1937, Page 5

DEERSTALKER'S PLIGHT

NIGHT ON THE RANGES. Caught by darkness on Thursday evening when in search of a stag, Air Arthur Jenkins, aged 36, of Palmerston North, spent an uncomfortable thirty hours in the open. Accompanied by Messrs B. Anderson and 1). Greer, el Palmerston N. he entered tlie ranges from the Kahn* ter aw a, Valley in search of deer on Thursday morning. They had no luck until 5.30 p.m., when they took separate trails alter a stag. Unable to locate his companions. Air Jenkins decided to camp the night. Friday morning he started liis walk out m dense fog and heavy rain. It was so bad, he said, that even if lit* had landed a sixteen-pointer he would have left it behind rather than carry it in under such conditions. It was too rough and dangerous. Mr Jenkins walked out near Eketahunu, thirty miles from where he mitered the ranges, and later returned to Palmerston North, none the worse for his absence had occasioned anxiety. “1 am glad to be back. It is none too pleasant to sleep in the open,'’ he stated, on liis return “When we got separated I thought it hi st to light a lire and spend the night in the open instead of tramping about in the- dark and exhausting niyso’i. besides, it is too easy to break limb wandering about in the dark."