1500-FOOT FALL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 6, 22 January 1937, Page 5

1500-FOOT FALL

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Youth Killed on Mount Egmont BODY RECOVERED

(By Telegraph—!

DAWSON FALLS, Mt. Egmont, Jan. 21. The body of Phillip Matthews, the Wellington youth who had been missing on Mt. Egmont since Tuesday afternoon, was found by a seareh party at about 5.30 this morning. It was lying at the snow line, in a branch of the Mangonui Gorge. Death had followed a fall which cau&ed extensive injurics. Seareh parties from the Dawson Falls, North Egmont and Stratford mountain house at dawn, and the eomsummit, where Matthews spent Tuesday night in the crater, on Wednesday afternoon without finding any trace of the missing youth, returned to the

Syme Hut for the night and Bet out again in the morning. One of these met a party which left the Stratford mountain house at dawn, nad the combined party reached the spot where the body lay without much difficulty. Aceording to members of the party, appeaTances indieated that the youth had slipped near the summit and fallen about 1500 feet. The body was brougbt to' the Stratford mountain house at 2 p.m. An inquest was opened, and after evidence of identification was adjourned. Philip Matthews was 19 years of age, the son of Mr and Mrs M. Matthews, Inglis street, Seatoun. He studied at the Art School, Wellington Technical College, where he was one of the most promising pupils. Last year he was employed as a commercial artist by Messrs John Dickinson Ltd. Wellington, hut more reeently he worked with his father, who is well known in Wellington as a commercial artist and etcher.