MISSING MAN.
FRUITLESS SEARCH $ LOST IN DANGEROUS COISKfJ (PRESS iSSO'IATIOH TXUOUjj'fc BLENHEIM, llwdi 1 Practically all hope of finding ,* I.co rainier, tlio young jchbol {jrf who has been missing in the • ountry sinco Sunday Inst, been abandoned. Search wu ItLM ail day yesterday, and n smallH including tho unfortunate youn 2 iS lather, wa.s out to-dav, but it jftigf Mood that unless the missing fag located by evening tho search {hk relinquished. " There seems little doubt that pJI after leaving his companions, ittf ed to penetrate into the countrrwg as "No man's land" at the "fira Rcnmore. This is characterised in many nlaeea precipices .100 nml 400 feet itffcgg containing many enormoui jj|ig slips. An attempt to cross limn! these slips is fatal, as the set on the move would alrajmlifi ably bury the adventurer. "ifcSraH (hat Palmer has probably be®® down in one of these *lip*.i|fflS rase, tho country in the vicifi||m rugged and broken that it' imiwissible to traverse, and tfo|§B ers' task would ho *uperhpMg|l nlmost cprtainlv ure. as it would be nuite inmlMlßß within n few feet of tho and never see him. .■
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18942, 5 March 1927, Page 14
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187MISSING MAN. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18942, 5 March 1927, Page 14
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