GOOD RADIO WORK

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 371, 4 November 1932, Page 6

GOOD RADIO WORK

TAURANGA EMERGENCY CORPS FINDS MISSING MEN PIG HUNTERS LOST Members of the Rotorua Radio Emergency corps will be interested to learn that the Tauranga corps has just performed some useful work. •On Monday they received word from Mr. C. Goodwill, of Te Puke/ that five men were missing in the bush. Word was first received by Miss F. Mason who cpmmunicated immediately with the rest of the corps and within- two and a-quarters hours five members, Messrs. W. G. Ward, C. T. Cross, G. West, N. A. Carter, and B. K. Gifford, were in Te Puke with the portable transmitter and receiver. Some delay occurred at Te Puke and it was not till three o'clock that the party in company with a search party from Te Puke arrived at their destination, which was just on the Tauranga side of the Maungarewa gorge on the Tauranga-Rotorua direct road. Here awaiting their arrival were the five lost hunters. However, within a few moments the Corps had their set operating and Were quickly in communication with Mr. Ward's station Z.L.1C.P., at Cameron Road, Tauranga, operated by Mr. Goulde, another member of the R.E.C. The news that the party was safe was immediately transmitted from Z.L.1C.P. • to Miss F. Mason's station Z.L. 1H.F., Miss Mason in turn communicating with Z.L.1F.L., Te Puke, Mr. Goodwill's station. The news was in Te Puke within twenty minutes of the arrival of the corps.

Unpieasant Night "The five men had an unenviable experience in the bush. They entered the bush on the western side of the Maungarewa Gorge, alonga road which extends for seven miles into Hhe bush. After travelling this road for some distance they struck off to the left in search of pigs. Late in the afternoon they turned to come back on to the road but they had proceeded so far in a south-westerly direction that on their return they crossed over the top of the road and continued on north in a deep ravine. The men had to spend the night in the bush, but eventually came out' on the Omanawa block and eventually reached the spot where they met the rescue party.