STILL NO NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 94, 22 April 1933, Page 12

STILL NO NEWS

MISSING TRAMPERS

SEARCH PARTIES OUT

EADIO COMMUNICATION

No news has been received 6f the three men and one woman who are missing in the Tararuas. Parties from Palmerston North, Wellington, and Masterton are searching the ranges, and an endeavour is being made to establish radio communication with the Wellington party, which includes Messrs. F. A. McNeil and W. G. Mace, members of the Tararua Tramping Club and the Wellington Emergency Radio Corps. The Wellington party left last evening to search from the Wairarapa.side, and their radio transmissions were heard at Lower Hutt last night. The signals were too weak to be distinguishable, however, and this morning another set was .sent out to the summit of the Rhnutakas to. relay messages to Wellington, where Mr. W. G. Turnbull and Mrs. Mace, wife of Mr. W.. G. Mace, are on duty, at their homes. The missing trampers —Miss M. Williams, of Wauganui; Dr. W. B. Sutch, of Palmerston North; Mr. E. Hill, of Aokautere; and Mr. A..-H. O'Keefe, of Wellington—who set out from Levin on Saturday to cross the ranges, were last seen on Sunday when they left another party which they met on the Levin .side oij the ranges Mr. A. B. Perry, a member of the Tararua Tramping Club, who was a member of the party that last saw the missing trampers, loft with tho Wellington search party last evening. The Wellington party consists of nine members of the Tararua Tramping Club, and they intended to make the Mount Holdsworth mountain house their starting point. They are' carrying food sufficient to last four or five days.