SHEEPFARMER MISSING
Search In Rugged Country
(From Our Own Reporter) TIMARU, October 12. Local residents and police from Oamaru will at 7 a.m. tomorrow resume a largescale search for a 45-year-old Dansey Pass sheepfartmr, Mr Thomas Douglas Wright, who was last seen yesterday morning before he left his homestead to work sheep in back paddocks on his 9000 to 10.000-acre run of mountainous snow tussock type country. Police were informed after Mr Wright did not return home last evening and his truck was found empty where he had intended fo work his property. A party of 30 local residents headed by Constable D. J. Finney, of Duntroon, set out at 4 a.m. today to search the area. Constables W. Parsons (Kurow) and J. Beardsley (Otematata) assisted in the search this afternoon. Constable Finney said late this evening that the search had been carried out today over exceptionally difficult country. Mrs Wright had also organised an aircraft search by three privatelychartered aircraft over the area for about two hours.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29643, 13 October 1961, Page 14
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