Cold, Wet But Safe
(N.Z. Press Association) WANGANUI, July 19. “rm never going up there again. By crumbs it was cold, and wet, and there aren’t any opossums there anyway,” 55-year-old Mr Campbell Gread said this morning. Mr Gread in his first season as a commercial opossum hunter, became lost in heavy bush country near Atene on Saturday, and was not found by searchers until last evening.
He was tired, hungry, wet and cold, but otherwise fit and well. The searchers and Mr Gread took about five hours to walk out to the road. He and the party arrived at Wanganui police station at 1 ajn - This morntag Mr Gread said he would continue to trap opossums but would never go back to the Atene area.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31117, 21 July 1966, Page 8
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126Cold, Wet But Safe Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31117, 21 July 1966, Page 8
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