BODY FOUND
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LOSt STUDENT SEARCH PARTY'S LABOtJRS ON AVALANCHE PEAK under seven feet of snow
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Christchurch, Sunday. The hody of Samuel Edward Russell, the . Christchurch Training .College student. who was lost on.Avalaixch'e Peak in Arthur's Pass on July 20, was found hy a party of searchers this morning. . The body was lying under. seven feet of snow. It is thought that death must have been almost instantaneous. A large party of clinxbers was able to conxmence the search on Saturday. Leaving the township at Arthur's Pass early in the morning, they carried out a c.are.ful search ovex* the snow slide which enveloped Russell and whjch covered an area of 150yds by 90yds but no trace of the body was found. The party returned at 4 p.m. hut when the search was continued early this nxorning, the body was ' found after half an hoxir's seax-ch. No di.fficuity was expex-ienced in hriniging the body back to Arthur's Pass where it was placed on a train to .Christchurch. It is understood that the burial will .take . piace at Dunedin where the late Mr. Russell's parents reside. The search party will return frqm the Pass at 8 o'clock to-night. No" details are as yet available gs to -how and where the body was found.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 603, 7 August 1933, Page 5
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216BODY FOUND Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 603, 7 August 1933, Page 5
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