HEROES OF THE BUSH.
FAITHFUL COMRADES
(Per Press Association.) liAAllLT(M,.;last night. A story of endurance, pluck, and. bush comradeship came to hand this afternoon from the King Country. '. < ■ • A man named Herbert Wovsley, a,ged 35 years, was engaged m tree-felling m the bush 20 miles from Raurihra yesterday, when &> tree fell on' him, breaking and mutilating Ids. tldgh. ;.-., _ Eight comrades. st,arted. off. at, 0 o'clock yesterday afternoon to carry mm on the loiig, toilsome journey over steep mountainous country to Itaurimu. When they proceeded five ip-iles they eecured^a .trap,, "but, thia broke, d«^ owing to the i-ougli, broken nature of the country, and they had to abahdon it; Thev^ continued -the march, sometime^ through: deVjso. bush and, «t times over-rbugh clearings, of piled:Up \oga, and frequently up to their kii<ses m mudThe. night was bitterly cold; and the darknbss m the bush was a great handicap, ,'thia":' whole party frequently .Btunib-. ling •; over - logs, losing their, footing and being -precipitated down slopes. Wbrnand. fatigued, they reached Ilaurimu" at, 8 o'cloOkfthis morning, wkesi;e Worsleyiwifts placed o|i, the train and conveyed ;to'|lai^
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13427, 8 July 1914, Page 4
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180HEROES OF THE BUSH. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13427, 8 July 1914, Page 4
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