SEARCHERS MISSING.
TRIAcHIRoUI MAID QOUI'I'IV. BESCUED GIRL BECOMES ILL. United Prev, Ann—nee. Tel. W (Received June 5. 11 mm.) ’ MELBOURNE, June 5. Three of a large party of men who began a search for the two daughters of a lighthoueekeeper who were report~ ed missing on June 3, are themselves missing. They are experienced bushmen, but have no knowledge or the treacherous swamp country around the Thurre River, where they were last reported. The elder of the two girls yesterday became very ill and we- sent to hospital, where it was dound that there was grave danger 0! her contracting pneumonia. On June 8 the two daughters—aged I'6 and H respectively—o! the assistent lishthousekeeper at Cape Ever-rd. who had been lost in dense scrub elncc Monday morning. returned home. They were suflering severely from hunger and exposure, as they had spent two nights in the cold and rain.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19904, 5 June 1936, Page 7
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148SEARCHERS MISSING. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19904, 5 June 1936, Page 7
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