NIGHTS IN BUSH
TWO AIRMEN TRAINEES FOUND WAY OUT TO-DAY Two young airmen who were reported missing on a shooting expedition a few miles from Rotorua spent two days in the bush before finding their way out between nine and ten o'clock this morning. The men, Leading-Aircraftman * Robert Prescott Ruddle and LeadingAircraftman Thomas John Currie, both aged 19, R.N.Z.A.F. trainees, left Rotorua clad in khaki shorts and shirts on a hired bicycle on Sunday morning carrying a .303 service rifle. They did not say to which part of the bush they were going, and when they failed to return a party of Air Force personnel, under police leadership, searched the Waimangu area, on the way to Taupo, without success, in misty rain yesterday. An aeroplane search also failed. However, this morning the bushed airmen managed to find the road and located a farmhouse. The area in which they had been lost was Rotokawa, six or seven miles from Rotorua, on the way to Tauranga. They have now returned to their station, little the worse for the experience.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 272, 16 November 1943, Page 4
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