Search For DeerStalker
Sir,—After reading your reports of the search for Mr Nilson, who was lost on April 12. I would like to ask, with all due respect to the searchers, why they pulled out 12 days after the reported loss. Is not that the time when concentrated effort should be made? A deer-stalker of his age and experience could surely last 12 days.—Yours, etc., BUSHMAN.
April 28, 1961. [The Chief Inspector of Police. Greymouth <Mr H. O Hansen) replies: “At the time he went missing, Edward Neilson was shooting on the Bramock Brae Range at a height of approximately 7000 feet. He was last seen on a rocky spur bounded by precipitious cliffs and rocky gorges containing ice and snow. The area was thoroughly searched as far as humanly possible. Some of the searchers engaged are experienced bushmen and deerstalkers residing at Jacobs river and familiar with the area. The search was called off after a full consultation with the searchers, among whom were members of the party who accompanied Neilson on the shooting trip.”]
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29505, 5 May 1961, Page 3
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