SNOW STOPS SEARCH
(New Zealand Press Association) WANGANUI, August 1. The search for Graham Bruce Collier, aged 30, farmer of Rangiwaea, Taihape, who has been missing since Thursday when he went shooting on Mangaohane station, on the Taihape-Napier road, was called off today until the weather improves.
Mr Collier was camped in a hut seven miles behind Mangaohane homestead with Mr M. Templeton, an opossum trapper. Mr Collier left the hut on Thursday after lunch and has not been seen since. Mr Templeton looked for him on Thursday night and
i Friday in freezing temperaI tures. i He walked back through i snow to the homestead on Satj urday morning to notify the i police. Eight of the station hands • searched for Mr Collier on 1 Saturday and a Search and
Rescue Organisation party continued the search today,
but snow and poor visibility hampered them and the search was called off.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30818, 2 August 1965, Page 14
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