Mr Max Barker, a gold prospector, of Auckland, who was presumed missing, was located at Big Bay, South Westland, yesterday. A plane belonging to Scenic Air Services flew into Big Bay to change a battery in the radio there and found Mr Barker living in the radio hut. He said he thought it was still February. He added that he thought he was in good time for a plane which was to have picked him up at the end of last month. Mr Barker was taken to Queenstown by the
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28530, 8 March 1958, Page 16
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