BOY FOUND
SLEEPING IN STACK
PROCPECTING FEVER. BLENHEIM, April 27. While working on the.railway line south of Blenheim this morning a gang of surfacemen observed ;» small boy playing round a .haystack. Bearing in mind the fact, that James. Colin Gray, the nine-year-old son of Air C. W. Gray, of South Street, had been missing since Saturday, they called him over and interrogated him. The youngster denied his identity, but the men identified him by the description published in the newspapers. They detained him, ultimately bringing him back to Blenheim, where lie was handed into the .charge of -Iris father? “ Ihe boy is stated to be thin and ill. .He...has. apparently been sleeping in a hole in, the haystack and subsisting ;;on ■vTtrything ■ which--he-could find to .oat; His ■ father state's that the laa heal'd 1 someone suggest that there was gold to be found in the Wither Hills, and he get out to repair the family fortunes, scratching about in gullies and sleeping under bushes at night.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1933, Page 6
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166BOY FOUND Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1933, Page 6
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