STRUCK BY ROCK
TRAGEDY ON MOUNTAIN COMPANIONS' ESCAPE (By Teleerapn.—Press Assocla-loa.) DUNEDIN, Friday. The mountaineering tragedy above the Homer tunnel in the Ilollyt'ord Valley on Wednesday involving the death of Mr John Hunter Maclean (22), of Dunedin, was caused by a huge boulder striking the deceased, and not as the result of a fall down the mountainside, according to Information supplied by one of his companions. Deceased was a member of a party fully equipped for mountaineering, the others being Mr George Chance, jun., of Dunedin, and the guide, Mr Donald Cameron, of Hollyford. They were returning from Milford to the Homer Tunnel by way of Talbot Pass and were within a quarter of an hour’s walk of the Public Works -camp when they decided to rest on a ledge. The three men were roped together, Mr Maclean sitting between the other two. Without warning a huge boulder, six feet above them, fell and struck Maclean, death being Instantaneous. Mr Chance had a lucky escape, the boulder just moving him. The inquest was opened this morning at the Homer Camp and adjourned.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20422, 12 February 1938, Page 9
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