NIGHT IN SNOW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 155, 4 July 1938, Page 11

NIGHT IN SNOW.

TWO MEN MISSING.

LOCATED THIS MORNING.

AN UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCE. (F: T.-1-Te.ph.-Prv.ss Association.) TAUMARUXI-I, this day. T-v.. Wellington visitors to the Chatea M■--:•-. Home add Davidson, aged about :;.'.. «im had been missing since yes-e •lay morning, were located this moni: 1 about lour miles from the Cha:•■•hi. Apparently they lost their beari-j- last night and spent the night un'l.-r a bush in the snow. Hie missing men were located by Cot!••..;'•!..' Bruce, of Taumarunui. at the int-.'iM.-ti.ui of Bruce Road and the Xa; T.al Park-Taupo Road, about 11 uV! -k. At .hr. break they followed the Mansa-tej-opo Mi-eain until they reached the Taiii-' lioad, and then 'walked on to Bnii>- Road whe-e thev met the constable. He took them back to the Chateau. They are both well, though tired and cold after an unpleasant night spent in the t-v.-w. They w«rc uent to bed for "ii a nival at ; ic Chateau. Week-end Excursionists. Th- two were menn<er= of a week-end excursion party from Wellington, ami set out from the Chateau Tongariro with one companion for the Tama Lakes whi.-h are situated at the foot of Xpauruhoe, about 10.30 o'clock yesterday morning. Their companion turned back at Taranaki Falls, but the other two men continued on. They were not reported missin* until !U.> o'clock last night, when a Search party immediately set out Thev searched till three o'clock this" rnornin" when they returned to the Chateau without locating the missing men. Further search parties" set oiit at six seven and eight o'clock this morning. Mr Carl Bisberg, a former guide at the I hateau. and Constable Bruce left Taumarunui at four o'clock this mornin-r, and Mr. Bisberg went out on skis to assist in tiie search.

The weather conditions at t*e Chateau over the week-end were bad, and the snowiall yesterday was the heaviest recorded for three years. It was necessary- for the searchers to use skis as it wa=. not possible to walk in the soft deeu snow. ' '