SPENT NIGHT IN BUSH

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30286, 12 November 1963, Page 6

SPENT NIGHT IN BUSH

Eight-Year-Old Boys Found (N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN, November 10. Two eight-year-old boys in search of adventure became lost and spent Saturday night on desolate Flagstaff Hill, near Dunedin. This morning the boys, Murray Frame and Geoffrey Belsey, were found unharmed in bush near Pineapple track. Eighteen policemen and the anxious parents of the boys searched from about 9.30 on Saturday night until 3 o’clock this morning. At daylight the Search and Rescue Organisation went into action. Deerstalkers, local residents, a teachers’ college tramping group and an Army unit on a map-reading course joined the searchers engaged in combing a desolate area roughly five miles by three miles. The boys were found at 11.15 a.m. They were “a bit cold,” very hungry and a little apprehensive of parental reaction. Clad only in jeans and jerseys they had sheltered in bush and slept close together as protection against the cold. The night was comparatively mild although as recently as Wednesday night there was a light snowfall on the promontory.