A Rough Time
(Per Press Association). Auckland, May 6. News from Taupo states that A. B. Stubbinga and Alfred Clayton are recovering from their recent severe experience in the Upper Mohaka during the recent disastrous floods. It appears tbat a huge landslip came right across the Mohaka, blocking up the river, burying the camp and carrying the inmates before it, covering them with mud. As the debris receded it partially released them enabling tbem to struggle out minus their clothes, yet very thankful to save their lives, though their subsequent experience of battling through bush and scrub without any food or clothes for three days was anything but pleasant,
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 259, 7 May 1897, Page 2
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109A Rough Time Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 259, 7 May 1897, Page 2
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