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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19812, 2 December 1919, Page 6

According to (ho report submitted to the City Council last evening tlu» Klootncity Committee is having inquiries made tho establishment of a hydro-electric stand-by plant on (ho Waimakariri River. A. man named James Deni iill0( l about sixty-seven years, was found in a plantation at Fairfield on Sundnv. under distressing circumstances, by 'a, party who were, shooting in the locality (writes the Ashburton correspondent, of the " Star "). It is un-1 dcrstood that Dent and certain other old men had occupied some- huts on a County Council reserve, but recently had been instructed to movo on Dent it appears, then pitched his camp, without a roof or covering of any description, m a neighbour's plantation, and had evidently laid there Cor a week or more without food or shelter, and exposed to all the recent rough weather. Ho had only a sack to lie on, and a portion of a blanket for covering, botli of which were saturated with the rain, lie police, on boing communicated \Mtli, found the old man in a -weak 'ind emaciated state. He was at once taken to the Ashburton Countv Hospital and on inquiry yesterday was found u, 1,0 progressing satisfactorily.