STORY OF THE BUSH

Southland Times, Issue 17697, 8 July 1914, Page 5

STORY OF THE BUSH

THE PLUCK OF COMRADES. INJURED MAN CARRIED FOR 20 MILES. (Per United Press Association.)', HAMILTON, July 7. A story of endurance, pluck -and bush comradeship is to band this afternoon from the King Country. A man named Herbert Worsley (33), was engaged in tree felling in the bush twenty miles from Raurimu yesterday, when a tree fell on him, breaking and mutilating his thigh. Eight comrades started off at five yesterday afternoon to carry him the long, tiresome journey over steep mountainous country to Raurimu. When they had proceeded five miles they secured a trap, but this broke down owing to the rough and broken nature of the country, and they had to abandon it and they continued. They marched sometimes through dense bush, and at times over rough clearings of piled up logs, and frequently were up to their knees in mud. The night was bitterly cold and the darkness of the bush proved a great handicap, the whole party frequently stumbling over logs, missing their footing and being precipitated down the slopes. Worn out and fatigued they reached Raurimu at eight o’clock this morning, where Worsley was placed on a train and conveyed to the W T aikato Hospital at' Hamilton.