SURPRISE RETURN
■MISSING PROSPECTOR,
HOPE ABANDONED LONG AGO.
NELSON, September 19.
Albert Darwin Bromell, who' set out alone on a gold prospecting expedition to Mount Owen on June 18 with one month’s rations and had since been given up as lost, made a surprise return late last n ; ght.
The only details known'yet are that he has returned’ to his home at Tui and
was very footsore
At the end of July’ search parties left Wangapeka in an effort to get in touch with the prospector, but the snow was so heavy and the country so treacherous that they returned and gave up hope of BromwtlU being able to live through this winter’s exceedingly heavy snows. "
However, the 1 matt has returned after Over three hidhtlls ; oiif on' the sllt)w«ct)vel’ed hinterland.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1931, Page 4
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131SURPRISE RETURN Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1931, Page 4
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