ALL HOPE ABANDONED

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3609, 5 March 1927, Page 2

ALL HOPE ABANDONED

OF FINDING MISSING SCHOOL TEACHER, Blenheim, March 4. Practically all hope of finding Eric Lee Palmer, the young school teacher who has been missing in the Benmore country since Sunday last, has now been abandoned. Search parties have scoured the country for days but it is understood that unless the missing man is located by this evening the search will be relinquished. There seems to be little doubt that Palmer, attempted to penetrate into the country known as “No Man’s Land,” at the back of Benmore. This is steep ' precipitous country, characterised in many places by sheer precipices 300 to 400 feet in height, containing many enormous shingle, slips. Any attempt to cross some of these-slips is fatal, as the shingle, onee set on to move, would almost inevitably bury the adventurer. It is feared tlmi. Palmer has probably peen carried down in one of these slips. In any case, the country in the vicinity is so rugged and broken that it is almost impossible to traverse, and the searchers’ task would' be superhuman and almost certainly foredoomed to failure, as it would be quilt* possible to be within feet of the missing man and never see him.