A SAD STORY.
A BACIvBLOCKS TRAGEDY. A painfully sad, but unfortunately v true story—a tragedy of backbloc’ks pioneer life—is related b ,T the TJriti cor_ respondent of the “Taranaki Daily News.” A woman and her husband, wild had taken u" a section way back in the Taranaki hinterland years ago, reached their new home only after the greatest of difficulties.. Once there the Woman declared that nothing would induce. her to make the journey again. For nine years she never stirred out of the home paddock. At length she fell ill, and 1 it was deemed l advisable to take her to the nearest, hospital. For thirty miles' they carried her through a ■t Ideas wilderness on a stretcher, relays of men relieving at intervals. A few weeks in hospital restored the woman to health, and her return home was mooted. The woman phuddorecl at the thought declaring it would kill her. However, a dav was fixed for her departure, but before it. dawned the "woman was dead. t The doctor in attendance who knew all the' cireanr.stances, said he could only ascribe her death to a broken beam .
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2766, 22 March 1910, Page 2
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189A SAD STORY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2766, 22 March 1910, Page 2
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