TRAMPER FOUND

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 158, 6 July 1935, Page 10

TRAMPER FOUND

LOST SIX MONTHS.

MEMORY DEFECTIVE. LOCATED IN WELLINGTON. BttSH CAMPING ADVENTURE (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CARTERTON, this day. About six months ago a man, Mr. Harold P. Goodman, a. resident of Greytown, was reported to be lost in the Tararua Ranges. Search parties from Grcytown and Wellington combed the district, but could find no trace. Finally efforts were abandoned. The Gveytown police have now reported that Mr. Goodman has been found in Wellington, suffering from loss of memory, and is being returned to Greytown to-day. Mr. Goodman left his home at Greytown on Christmas Eve for a tliree weeks' holiday in the Tararua Ranges the back of his home town. When ho did not return at the end of the three weeks search parties were organised. By January 20, when Mr. Goodman was a week overdue, the searchers numbered 50, and sis no trace had been found the search was shortly after ward A abandoned. Mr. Goodman carried a rifle and ammunition, and had plenty of food to last him the length of his holiday. The first seurch party went up the Waiohine Gorge on January IS, hut found no trace of the missing man. Subsequently the search was takeli tip by the Tararua Tramping' Club, ' and parties were equipped- witlr short-wave wireless sets. Four search parties from the club left Wellington 011 January 18 and began operations from Otaki, Kaitoke, Woodville and Masterton. By the 21st a large area had been combed from Mount Reeves to the Cone Hut and up the Waiohine Forks. Bad weather, with heavy rain, which made the rivers rise, was experienced. Mr. Goodman is a married man with a wife and family.