WHAREPUHANGA.

Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 156, 22 October 1912, Page 3

WHAREPUHANGA.

(Own Correspondent.)

An unfortunate accident happened to Mr Richardson, one of the settlers here, on Tuesday last. While he was falling bush on his section a tree fell on him and broke his right leg just below the knee, also bruising his back badly. The injured man had to be carried by relays of bearers over nearly fourteen miles of bush tracks, on which the party were often up to their waists in mud. and water. The journey took eleven men nearly twelve hours to perform, and a more agonising experience for the injured man is hard to imagine. Our thanks are most heartily given to MrsNatezke, who kindly made the sufferer as comfortable as she could while Dr Henderson, who was in attendance very soon set the leg and attended to the other injuries. A greater argument in favour of backblock telephones and roads can hardly be conceived, if the telephone had been nearer instead of being twenty miles away from the scene of the accident the doctor could have been out six hours earlier, which would have been a great relief to us all. It is tj be hoped that the effort now being made to establish a post and telegraph office at Mr Natezke's will be successful. There is a fair amount of bush and scrub coming, down in the lfcighbourhood, and it should be a great boon to all in "the district. It is high time now that the road works began, as with the advent of, fine weather things are beginning to move, and settlers are looking anxiously forward to the time when instead of the existing track, which to say the least is pretty bad, we shall have a decent road.