WANDERING INFANT
FIVE DAYS MISSING
TRAVELS 45 MILES IN SPEARGRASS.
(Australian Press Association.)
SYDNEY, September 7
The four-year-old son of a Mosgiel farmer in the far west of New South
Wales, who had been misisng from home for five days, was discoverd 45 miles away. His parents had given, up all hone of finding the child alive. Shearers and others, however, conducted an intensive search for several days. The boy’s clothes were in rags, and lie was very weak from exposure and starvation.
The hov told the searchers that he lived on speargrass. He had wandered aimlessly through the grass, which was often much higher than himself.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1931, Page 5
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