MISSING TRAMPERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 25, 21 April 1927, Page 13

MISSING TRAMPERS

lost IN tararuas TWO STUDENTS OVERDUE WELL-KNOWN IN SPORT Press Association WELLINGTON, Wednesday. n e *mond Scanlon, champion „. ne r of St. Patrick’s College (a """of Mr. J. C. Scanlon. ex-Chief Gaoler), and Roy Dredrich, the Varsity wing-forward (a nephew . Mr. Scanlon) have not yet returned from an attempt to cross the Tararua Ranges. On Thursday last they left Levin, iDing to reach Carterton or Mastermn on Monday morning, and to get ack to Wellington the same night, ■"heir continued absence is oecasion- ‘ great anxiety. The crossing on he track taken by the two takes four i vs under good conditions. Parties usually equip themselves for six days. The distance from Levin to Masteron or Carterton is about 60 miles. The track is over very difficult country and is not well-defined. Trampers sight easily wander into one of the numerous by-paths and become lost, in wet weather it is possible for them io be cut off by flooded rivers. The two took food for four days. They carried a compass and an electric torch. Search parties are out looking for them. SEARCH PARTIES OUT rain and flooded streams

press Association LEVIN, To-day. parties left Levin and Otaki this morning to search for the youths Scanlon and Diedrich, who have been missing >n the Tararuas since ThursThe Levin party had to make a long .letour owing to the Ohau River being in flood. Heavy rain fell last night on the ranges.