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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 702, 28 December 1909, Page 4

A stirring act of comradeship is related in connection with an accident to a bush man, Which occurred at the end of last- week, writes an Auckland correspondent. John. Davis, while working in a valley on one of Dr. Rayner’s Karekare timber reserves, was pinned to the ground by a rolling log. His position was perilous, but his sole companion, Harry Wilkins, succeeded after great, muscular exertion in “jacking” off the pinning log. Davis being by the time quite unconscious Wilkins bore his isst burden up the steep hillside, until assistance could be summoned. Even then Wilkins was foremost in the efforts at revival, and when the injured lumberman eventually came round it was to find bis mate spraying him with water from a spring. After being borne by willing carriers for some distance in a stretcher, Davis was driven to his home at Avondale. Although severely crushed he has been making reassuring progress. “There is no unearned increment,” said a Main Trunk line farmer to a Dominion representative recently. “I came here eighteen years ago, when this place w T as a wilderness, and the chances of a through railway a remote possibility to be placed on almost level terms with the mellennium. I lived in a wbare for years, imprisoned by nature, and miles from anywhere. I would sometimes never see a human being for six months. When I eventually built this house, the timber for it had to be packed from Pipirikl on horseback, a distance of over forty miles. The freight of sugar was 15s per bag ; flour, 25s per 100 ; to get my wool into Hunterville cost me £6 per ton. In the face of all my difficulties, I have married, and brought up a family, who even now have no school to go to, and I am enforced to employ a teacher on my own account. Would I have gone through all the drudgery and worry of the past eighteen years if I had not thought that there was a good possibility of making this land my very own ? Let the land nationalisation theorists come to me and thousands of farmers who have toiled like me in New Zealand, and they will hear some truths that will do them good.” That sounds very nice, but there is also another side to the picture.

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