ON THE TARARUAS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 146, 17 July 1909, Page 6

ON THE TARARUAS

THE RESCUE OP HUGH COCKRWU TOUR DAYS WITHOUT FOOD. Otaki, WednesdayHugh Cockrill, who was lost in the Ctaki Gorge country on Friday, vat found on Tuesday, and was taken to Otaki lust night. It is not aa yet known why the lost man left the mob of cuttle on the day of his disappearance, or why he wandered into the mountains. All that can be at present ascertained is that Cockrill wns found twenty-eight miles from the spot where lie had been hist seen by a fellow-mus-ic rcr, and (hat he was four days in the hush without food ibeforc he was found by the search party—a section of tire one hundred settlers and police who volunteered to search for him.

When found Coekrill was in a very vi'iik state, (ind hi, loffs were much limi-ed. his tripu-i'is torn to rags, mil his .boots useless. I'he people who found limh carried him to Sheridan's camp, -even milM from Ouki, and at 4 o'clock yesterday n relative <if the poor fHlow. .ngether with (.'on,t«il)le Satherley, earlied him on «n improvised stretcher theme to Olaki.

U lu\s been said that starvation in cold weather is the "safest" kind of ■larvation, and that men of normal «m----stitution who arc lost in Weak country during winter time luivc a better chanco of life than those who have been overcome by thirst ond heat.