Youth Killed In Fall Down Bluff
(New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, December 25. A youth was killed when he fell about 500 ft while trying to find a path round a bluff at the head of Stone Creek in Central Otago on Sunday.
The dead youth was one of a tramping party of five girls and five men which went into the Glenorchy area on Sat-
urday, intending to tramp to Moonlight. He was
Robert Ernest Williamson, aged 18, of 137 Chelmsford Street, Invercargill.
The party went into the Buckler Burn area, about two miles on the Queenstown side of Glenorchy, on Saturday, intending to go to Moonlight, across the Moonlight Saddle and out to Arthur’s Point. They followed a small tributary, Wallers Creek, by mistake and camped on Saturday night in a scheelite miner’s hut. Yesterday they crossed to Stone Creek, the head of which is about eight miles from the Glenorchy Road, and decided to follow the stream to the road because of bad weather. Mr Williamson and another member of the party, Lindsay Crighton, aged 16, of Wellington, went ahead. At 8 p.m., when trying to find a path, Mr Williamson fell down a bluff to the creek bed.
Lindsay Crighton said it was misty at the time of the accident and light drizzle was falling.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31561, 26 December 1967, Page 1
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