CLIMBERS PRESUMED DEAD

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27688, 18 June 1955, Page 8

CLIMBERS PRESUMED DEAD

THREE MEN MISSING SINCE CHRISTMAS (New Zealand Press Association) GREYMOUTH, June 17. i 2. h fu e - cl , imfc >ers—missing since they left their homes in Nelson and ParaP«F a - u ?? u s * x mon ths ago—are now officially presumed to have died in the Mount Sefton area of the Southern Alps. i n< ? uest in Wataroa, South westland, today, the Coroner, Mr G. Nqrthcroft, said he would make certain representations to the Justice Department about the safey of climbers in > future alps expeditions. The inqy®st was held with the permission of the Attorney-General. three men, who went on a Christmas mountaineering holiday W ?F®Frederick John Foster, aged 46 a Ch!.‘; 1 i tOr C i ß Z' Ook street - Nelson, Brian Charles Hutton Moss, aged 34, an “5° l ' ntan, ( of Douglas street, Stoke, and Ernest Graham McKay, aged 48 a surveyor, of Ruahine street Paraparaumu. .„/ he , Coroner found that.the men died S„“ nk ? ow 2„ clreums tances on or about txS ber 281 in the early stages ex P. edltl on- Three experts on gave evidence at the <1 c ‘ thou « h the verdict did not s?at P ri y th£ e t£ aUSe ° f dCath ’ “ was siated that the men may have been swept to their deaths by an avalanche.