Ohakune search team?
• Continued from page 1. between the Mangaturuturu Hut and Lake Surprise by a contact search. Three helicopters, the Philips machine from Taupo, an RNZAF Iroquois and the local Wanganui Aero Work craft, searched the area from around the Mangaturuturu River to State Highway Four. The local pig hunting club searched the lower area, and after the official search had been called off, a medium tried to visualise the boy's whereabouts. "Anyone who comes to us and can offer anything at all we'll listen to," said Lisle. A local search group, administered by Terry Tapp of Winstone Afforestation Ltd and including Winstones employees and scouting groups, went into the area on Thursday and planned to continue over the weekend. They were concentrating on the area beneath the Mangaturuturu Hut, aboiit five kilometres from the railway line. Sergeant Coker said that some time in the future a search and rescue exercise may be held in the area where John Brough went missing. and this could include a further search for the boy.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 29, 10 December 1985, Page 2
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173Ohakune search team? Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 29, 10 December 1985, Page 2
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