FALL DOWN 400 FT. CLIFF
YOUNG MAN'S DEATH I
! COMPANION'S STORY
(Per Press Association.) LWERCARGILL, this day. Details of a- fatal accident to Archi
bald John Bobbie, of Invercargill, a bank clerk, who lost his life in the upper Jtollyford on Sunday, .shows that with jtviu others, Messrs. Dawson and Hoiie, j߻f Dnnedin, he was climbing a steep )Bpm" covereil with vegetation on Mount Bell, opposite the Homer Hut. They had emerged from the bush and were proceeding along the foot of a face above a.high cliff when he lost his foothold and Slipped.4oo to 500 ft. down the mountain side. \ " ,
His companions, who were ahead, did not actually witness the accident, but saw Dobbie falling, and immediately returned to'a public works camp, from ■which men were sent out and located the body within 10 minutes. Dobbie was badly injured, and the indications were that he was killed in'stantaneously.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18923, 27 January 1936, Page 11
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