ROVERS CARRYOUT PRACTICAL EXERCISES IN DIFFICULT BUSH

Wanganui Chronicle, 24 October 1950, Page 4

ROVERS CARRYOUT PRACTICAL EXERCISES IN DIFFICULT BUSH

A party of Wanganui Rovers carried out realistic and practical exercises at the week-end, when they penetrated dense bv.sh country near Atene, imagining that an aircraft had crashed and that rescue party was needed. Two Rovers, who acted as “casualties,” were carried out over extremely difficult country a;d one Rover in the rescue party collapsed through exhaustion. He had to be assisted out. For the purnerg c" the exercise, the object of which was to test signalling and reeonnairar.ee work 'n difficult bush country, it was aetttme'l th-f an aircra't h-nd crashed while on a flight from Hawera to Palmerston North. The only information available tn the rescue party v.-as that th; plane was seen at dusk on Friaav living un the Tauairi Valley, off the Wanganui River, near Atene. and that it had nresurm’i’." crashed three minutes later. Actually, an ear’ier partv o ? Haver'-' bad worked their wav in and had left the “wreckage.” consisting of meets or b'.'ikling rarer naintod with alumin'rm. near th? ton cf - "nori, cliff, the River Road this point w~s about ■br-e and n : !'al- hsurs' trr.ve'li.-,.-. A party o’ 1” Rovers left VJrn ani'J er"'V- on f’.aturd-v- rrornin- and nrri'-|n-l -t A‘er- r i 9 n . m .. r-"'ting into foi’r rennrrlo parlies of three men h ” b.o i'"ei o' the<n ou . roco'-risanco. and at 11.30 a.m. was sigr- ll n-- to I'.nsn c-ran end -■ivin™ direotionc: to (fin resc’ ia n?riv. T’in A”?c’:ore wrs rea-flird at 4.15 nr-i-i. -pc] povers then about ■he rnr>ir;il> tart o' , th e two j,. T|lp v ._ s thr''”'”’) At . pf . t n- tkf> Cnur , wcre a | co usec | 10 convev mu. i.acres