NIGHT IN BUSH

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 27, 21 June 1939, Page 5

NIGHT IN BUSH

ELDERLY MAN'S EXPERIENCE

NO ILL EFFECTS Little the worse for his night in the bush on top of a high hill «ifc Waiohau, searchers found an elderly man, Mr' John Bailey of Thornton, making his v.ay out early on ?atur_ day morning. Mr Bailey, who is aged 75 years, is building a hoiise «t Waioftau with one companion named. Hogg. tic went into the bush on Friday afternoon for a walk, and climbed" a hill to view the scenery. Darkness overtook him there and he found it impossible to make his way out, so he spent the cold night where he was. At dawn he started back to his camo Meanwhile Mr Hogg became alarmed and communicated with tane. Constable H. Hedley and other searchers left in the morning to look, for the missing man but the party had not gone far when they met him. It is remarkable that a man of Mr Bailey's • years should bear the experience so well. MIST AFTER THE STORM Murk clouds .the Ohopc rollers, fallowing the t\yq : (iay. storjn. So <Icns» is the vapour rising from the breakers that it is impossible to see the length of the boach from the hills Overloading -the .sea,. The spume from the avaves had this morning created almost the equivalent to a heavy fog. In Whakatanc a,light mist enveloped the town and residential areas until alter 9 a.m.