DEEP MYSTERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 235, 4 October 1935, Page 8

DEEP MYSTERY.

MISSING TRAMPER

nct believed drowned. STRANGE SHOUTING H2AHD. (I'.y Telegraph. —Own Correspondent.) lIAWISRA, this clay. Mystery completely shrouds the disappearance of Mr. K. W. Fyson, of Ha worn, who failed to return from n. trump at Westniere last week-end. On Wednesday, following the discovery of his rucsaek and some food 011 the banks of the Kni-iwi Stream, it'was thought j that he had been drowned, but a thorough search of the stream revealed no sign of him, and that theory has now been practically abandoned. A new aspect was opened yesterday, when Mr. Harrison, a settler of the district, reported that lie had heard shouting in the bush at 9 a.m. yesterday. With two companions ho heard a sound having a peculiar and shaky intonation. The three men began to search immediately, and later returned to the homestead and notified the police. From 20 to 30 men searched the locality yesterday, but could find no sign of anyone. Shots were heard following the shouts yesterday, and the view is held that the sounds came from pig hunters. The area is a day's tramp from where Mr. Fy son's belongings were found, and' searchers have expressed the opinion that it would have been impossible Tor him to have reached Mr. Harrison's property. He would have had to work through, gorse and undergrowth. It is considered possible that Mr. Fyson, having met with a mishap at the stream, wandered into the gorse, which is being searched thoroughly today. It is understood that Mr. Fyson's diary, written up to the moment when he must have left his belongings to go down to the stream, and giving no indication of any ill-health beyond ordinary tiredness, was found with his rucsaek.*