WAITING GAME

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 247, 18 October 1941, Page 8

WAITING GAME

MANHUNT TACTICS CHECKING UP ON HUTS (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A systematic check-up of huts in the Mount Doughboy region was continued to-day in the Graham man-hunt, but there was evidence to suggest that the police were prepared to wait for Graham to disclose his whereabouts without themselves taking the initiative and running the almost certain risk of further bloodshed.

Many of these huts are scattered over a wide district, and are used by deer-stalkers as headquarters for expeditions in the bush. They are generally well stocked with provisions, bedding, ammunition and spare clothing, and perhaps would remain unoccupied for months at a time.

A typical example of what the police are doing occurred yesterday afternoon. A hut owned by Mr. E. Shannon, on Doctor's Creek, in the Hokitika Gorge, south of Koiterangi, was entered by a search party. Mr. Shannon has been overseas for some months, but in the hut were found a .22 single shot rifle, a fuse and gelignite, tea, tinned milk, sugar, Pour, blankets, camp cookers and clothing of every description. This hut has evidently been unoccupied since last July.