STILL SEARCHING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 210, 5 September 1931, Page 12

STILL SEARCHING.

LITTLE HOPE REMAINS.

QUEST FOR WARWICK STANTON.

BUSHMEN'S FINAL EFFORT.

DOGS TO BE EMPLOYED. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") THE CHATEAU, this day. Hope of finding Mr. Warwick Stanton alive has been dying hard, but any possibility of that has now been abandoned. At noon it was snowing heavily, and the weather was bitterly cold. In his low condition, even supposing that he still lives, it is not thought that Mr. Stanton .would be able to withstand the present severe conditions. There is gloom at the Chateau. Discussing the arrangements for a continuation of the search, the manager of the Chateau, Mr. R. Cobbe, said that 80 men were still working the Makatote Valley. It seemed utterly futile to pursue searches beyond there, considering the fact that the missing man was in an exhausted state last Monday afternoon. "The searchers have given up hope of finding him alive," he added. Sheep and cattle dogs will be used in the rugged bush country in the vicinity of the Makatote Valley to-morrow in a final effort. Two drovers with exceptionally fine teams of dogs have been communicated with, and the dogs will be employed in the search as early as possible. Alpinist's Views. Mr. T. A. Blyth, who. has climbed Mount Ruapehu 113 times, and was a member of the party which found the bodies of the victims of each of three previous tragedies on the mountain, has by no means given up hope of Mr, Stanton still being alive. "At. Passchendaele during the war I saw a German soldier brought in alive after being out in the mud of No Man's Land in midwinter, with a broken thigh, for six days," he said. Mr. Blyth believes Mr. Stanton is within three miles of where the girls were found. He is leading a party in to this place tomorrow. Several small camps are to be established, so that searchers can remain in the bush for two nights, and the bush within this radius will be thoroughly scoured. There are about thirty men out in the bu3h to-night.