MISSING LADS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1929, Page 4

MISSING LADS

SEARCH PARTIES OUT,

A week to-day, two lads, James Park, (sou of Mr James Park solicitor o'l Hokitika) and John Morpeth (son of -Mr W. T. Morpeth, Commissioner of Crown Lands) left Lake Knnieri to walk across to Lake Coleridge via Brownings’ Pass to join a party of friends 'there. ihe non-arrival of the two lads, „ one about l!) and the other 16, on due date, Friday last, together with tbc heavy flood of that day lias caused considerable anxiety and search parties luive been out so far without result, beyond that on Sunday a party from lvokatahi who reached Brownings’ Pass found paper and traces of a camp there. They returned last last night. On the other side a search party from Glentowen Station reached to within 3) miles of Brownings’ Pass without finding any trace of the two lads. To-day further search parties are out from both Kokatahi and Lake Coleridge sides. They will endeavour to meet in the vicinity o'f Brownings’ Pass and make a. comprehensive search, it being considered the lads may have got on to the wrong track, and followed the river on tdie wrong \ side. , r '• : The result of to-days search, which should not he available till to-morrow morning, is being awaited with considerable anxiety.