OVERDUE SCOUTS FOUND
Delayed By Fog On 20-Mile Trek
(New Hresa Association* NELSON, February 15. Two Nelson Boy Scouts, Alan Nock, aged 18, of 219 A Kawai street, and Rodney Matthews, aged 16, of 13 Franklin street, 24 hours overdue on a test trek, were found, safe and well, at 4 p.m. today on the Maungatapu saddle track at the head of the Maitai valley. Thick weather had delayed their progress. They had set out from Nelson on Saturday morning on a 20-mile test, and had been expected in the Maitai valley yesterday afternoon. As they were not at their appointed place the Nelson and Marlborough search and rescue organisations went into operation today. The scouts were found on the track they had intended to cover, but fog had delayed them.
False Pretences.—Harold Robert Charles Paul Saint-Merat, aged 32, a labourer, pleaded guilty in the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday to a charge of false pretences in that he issued a valueless cheque for £1175 in payment for a car. Saint-Merat had been committed to the Supreme Court for trial on this charge. Mr Justice Shorland remanded Saint-Merat in custody for sentence.—(P.A.)
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29130, 16 February 1960, Page 10
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