A PERILOUS JOURNEY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1937, 20 December 1913, Page 6

A PERILOUS JOURNEY.

LADt' TEACHER'S EXPERIENCES. ' <07 Meirraph.—Bpenia! GorrcflpomJcn-Vl Wangafiul,-December 19. ■■' Miss Maclean, daughter of the lato Archdeacon Maclean, who has resigned tlio position of mistress .of tho Kakatihi School in order to take nip an ap* ' pointmenfi at Hamilton had, it appears, an unenviable and perilous experience when coining to Wangauni during the recent storm. After sho had started on her journey she discovered that not only were tl»' roads Mocked by slips, but that tho streams bad swollen to such an extent that to cross would he extremely dangerous. Sho was riding one horse and driving a packer, which carried on its back her worldly belongings. Tho storm increased in fury as sho proceeded to Wanganui. and, with the slips behind her, sho had no other alternative but to push on the trip. Sho bad to encounter many hardships, and it serves to. show what, is constantly taking place in tho lives of teachers' in the "way-backs.'' At ono stream tlio water was running so strongly that to attempt to cross would simply *T)e to court disaster and probably death, so. with resourcefulness, she piifc the- horses to the stream, and she lierself got over with groat difficulty by swinging lierself over on the branches of willow trees. Regaining possession of tho horses on tlio other side of the stream she made tracks across country over the different stations, and eventually she ended her arduous and perilous journey by safely reaching AVangamii. Bcforo leaving Kakatihi Miss Maclean was presented by tlio settlers with a gold bangle and silver-backed brush and comb.