SEARCHERS FIND LOST SPORTSMAN’S BODY
TRAGIC DEATH IN GULLY Press Association. WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The body of Mr. Mervyn Hodgkinson, of Petone, who had been lost in the Orongo-orongo country since last Monday week, was discovered at noon to-day in a gully at the back of property owned by Mr. W. Scholes, of Wainuiomata. Overcome by exhaustion, Mr. Hodgkinson had evidently tripped in some undergrowth and been unable to rise. Only three miles away, in the direction in which he was apparently proceeding, lay open country, and had he kept going in the same direction he would have emerged from the bush two miles north of the spot at which his companion, Mr. Clarence Poynter, had reached safety, after struggling through the bush for assistance. The body was found by Messrs. Devine and Burns, the latter being the father of the third young man of the party which originally set out to shoot in the bush on Mount McKerrow. Upon the discovery being made, shots were fired as a signal for the recall of the other searchers. The police were informed, and tomorrow morning a party will set out to recover the body.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 386, 21 June 1928, Page 1
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192SEARCHERS FIND LOST SPORTSMAN’S BODY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 386, 21 June 1928, Page 1
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