MISSING TRAMPERS
Since it is the privilege of a free-born citizen of the Dominion to set out on a tramp without asking anybody’s permission, it may be suggested that it is nobody’s business what happens to .him. But human nature is not built that way. When a person fails to return to his usual haunts after a reasonable interval, questions are asked, and a search is instituted. Not infrequently, as in the case of lost trampers, the quest involve? the searchers themselves in considerable risk. The question, therefore, arises whether trampers venturing into difficult country should not have a system of communication by which they may be reached without loss of time and with a minimum of unnecessary search and risk. A correspondent whose letter we print to-day suggests that trampers might carry a homing pigeon with them A simpler method would be for them to blaze their trail.. Since tne community, from humane motives, has accepted some responsibility for the safety of trampers, it is at least due to it that the trampers themselves should provide facilities for their discovery in case of
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19350123.2.38
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 101, 23 January 1935, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
184MISSING TRAMPERS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 101, 23 January 1935, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in