ORERE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 452, 29 July 1919, Page 4

ORERE.

LOSr IN BUSH.

Peace was celebrated down at Orere in what might have turned out a very serious matter. A young man named Frank Luke, son of Councillor J. Luke, was out in the Orere bush with a party of friends on a shooting expedition and near dusk he missed the other members of the party and got " bushed.'' When he did not return soon after dork the alarm was given and next morning search parties turned out to seek him. The parties set out from the Ness Valley side of Orere as well as from Orere, in order to cut him oil' if he got down that way. At six o'clock on the Sunday evening word was phoned through that Mr Fred Ashby and his party had located the lost man away down the Manga - tangi, he being headed in the opposite direction to home. He had spent the night in the bush and from where he was located he must have travelled at some pace, he being ten or twelve miles in the wrong direction.