Ruapehu rescue
Search and rescue teams were called out over the weekend to find lost school boy George van den Hoeven. The Rotorua seventh former was separated from a party of school children on a geography field trip in the Waihohonu area on Mt Ruapehu. Park staff and Taupo and Turangi search and rescue teams were recalled on Sat-
urday morning after George broadcast a message using a citizen band radio he found in a repeater station hut on the Tukino Road. The message was picked up by a radio ham in Taupo who contacted the Turangi Ranger Station. He was lifted off the mountain in the Phillips Rescue Helicopter piloted by John Funnell about half an hour later.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 4, Issue 43, 14 April 1987, Page 1
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119Ruapehu rescue Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 4, Issue 43, 14 April 1987, Page 1
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