Hunters Cut Off By Floods

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31520, 7 November 1967, Page 1

Hunters Cut Off By Floods

(From Our Own Reporter) GREYMOUTH, November 6. Three Christchurch hunters will probably spend a miserable three days in rugged country in the Fox River area near Punakaiki. They left rubber mattresses and clothing in a farmer’s woolshed on Friday night.

They will not be able to return until Bullock Creek, which they crossed to reach the farm property, drops to a passable level. It is in high flood, and the owner of the property, Mr W. J. Cairns, of Punakaiki, is also unable to reach it. The men are believed to be trapped by the floodwaters at the head of the Fox River.

food, “lammies” and rubber mattresses were found in the shed on Saturday morning and the gear was still there on Sunday night.

The three men, experienced hunters, are Dennis Wilson, of 440 Halswell Road, Wayne Hawker, of 190 McGregors Road, and Derek Bowman, of 219 Eastern Terrace. Their names became known after Mr Cairns informed the police of the registration number of a car parked on his land. Mr Cairns said the men apparently arrived on Friday night and immediately set out into the bush. Two boxes of;