BURIED BY LANDSLIDE
BOY’S TRYING ORDEAL. REMARKABLE ESCAPE FROM DEATH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. After being completely buried by a landslide in the Orongo-Orongos for about nine hours, Desmond Nolan, 16 years of age, was brought into Wellington yesterday afternoon by the Free Ambulance and taken to hospital, where last night his condition was reported to be satisfactory. Nolan had a remarkable escape from death, as only the fact that a tree which came down with the slip was lying across his chest and head without touching him, while keeping the* 'main weight from him and allowing a t certain amount of air to penetrate./ prevented his being suffocated long before he could be dug out. The accident happened on Sunday afternoon, when with three companions Nolan was tramping into the Orongoorongos, and the party were about 34 hours’ tramp from the road. His companions were unable to get at Nolan and had to tramp about 10 miles to obtain spades and assistance, and it was about nine hours before the boy was finally dug out. Nolan, who lives with his parents at 34 Abbott Road, Ngaio, was suffering from exposure and shock, and had to be carried at least five miles to the road, where an ambulance was waiting to bring him into Wellington.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1942, Page 2
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217BURIED BY LANDSLIDE Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1942, Page 2
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