CLIMBER LOST ON RUAPEHU
Soccer Captain’s Cousin
(New Zealand Pres. Association) WELLINGTON. August 2. Karl Kowancz, captain of the Austrian Fussball Klub soccer team in Wellington for the second Austria-New Zealand soccer test game tomorrow, today learned from the police that one of his cousins missing in this country, is now feared dead and his body may probably never be found. The Austrian tramper who went missing on the slopes of Mount Ruapehu last Easter, Egon Lehrner, and of whom no trace coqld be found after a widespread search, was the Austrian footballer’s cousin. When Lehrner’s parents neard their nephew would pass through New Zealand during his world soccer tour they told him they did not believe their son was dead and asked him to make inquiries in New Zealand. Kowancz shared their anxiety and belief, but was told today by a police officer that there was little hope of Lehrner surviving. The missing man’s personal effects have been handed over to Kowancz and are being returned to Austria to the parents.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28346, 3 August 1957, Page 12
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