THE WHAREKURI TRAGEDY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18370, 1 May 1925, Page 9

THE WHAREKURI TRAGEDY.

NO FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS.

(■KCUt. TO "*?» PWWf.")

OAMARU, April 3Q-

No further developments have, occurred in regard to the Wharekuri tragedr. The police are stiU searching for Philip Hudson, but no trace of him has yet been found. There is a possibility that if he is'in the fast-running WaitaHi river, his body may never be recovered. On several occasions previously persons who have been drowned in that river have never been seen again. The report from Waimate that a young man witlf scratches on his face had called at a house and asked for .food, and that this man might have been Hudson, is not legarded seriously. Tap. police do not thwk it could be Hudson, as it is most unlikely tibat he would say where ho camo from. Further the clothes worn by the "Waimate mm do not correspond with those worn by Hudson. ■ However, the police have followed this and other supposed clues, and do i>ot. appear to have got any further forward. .. , 'Should Hudson not be found, cfcad or alive, in a few days, tho inquest on, Olive Rutherford will be resumed. Meantime the reasons which prompted the tragedy are wrapped in mystery.