TRAPPER'S DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 118, 21 May 1934, Page 11

TRAPPER'S DEATH.

BODY FOUND IN BUSH. MESSAGE FROM SEARCHERS. RADIO EQUIPMENT USED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A party of searchers in the Tararua Ranges yesterday found the body of the missing trapper, Mr. Alfred Young, aged 22, near the Tauherenikau Cone. Mi". Young set out on April 20, planning to meet friende at Kaitoke on Mav 9.

The search party was equipped with a portable radio apparatus and communicated with the Wellington police. The police immediately left to examine the bodv.

The party, which consisted of 10 members, stopped out last night so as to be able tins morning to take the body to the Cone hut, a journey of about two lioiirs from where the body was discovered. A small party left Greytown with two packhorees and proceeded to the Cone hut to bring the body to Woodside, near Greytown. It is expected they will arrive late in the afternoon. The Cone is a peak 354~ft in height, on the saddle between Mount Hector and Mount Reeves. A ridge lies between the Waiohine and Tauherenikau watersheds, and the country was difficult for the searchers, who set out with very meagre information. Mr. Young, who was said to have boon an experienced tramper, set out on April 20 with the intention of going over the grounds for which he had a trapping license. He had food sufficient for 14 days, and he told his friends that he might be a day or two late. The weather had been bad in the Tararuas recently and snow had fallen. A good quantity of concentrated foodswwats t taken by Mr. Young, who trapped for" opossums with success on the same block last season.

On Friday evening four members of the Tararua Tramping Club and two of the Paua CJlub left Wellington to search the Tauherenikau Cone and the Waiohine areas for Mr. Young, who was then 10 days overdue. Parties from the Tararua, Mutt Valley and University Clubs had arranged to be tramping near the area where Mr. Young was thought to be over the week-end, and a large combined search party was organised. Mr. Young's mother lives at Leoston, Canterbury.