PROSPECTOR FOUND DEAD
(X.Z. Press Association» NELSON, Feb. 4. ' ( The body of a 66-year-old: Riwaka man was found by a Search and Rescue team on ■ Saturday, six days after he ’ had gone prospecting up thej south branch of the Riwaka River. He was j Douglas Fitzgerald Wolf, retired, who had been reported missing on t Thursday. . Teams combed the rugged • hills in the valley on Friday without success. At 9.30 a.m. on Saturday a party found , Mr Wolf’s body at the foot i of a small bluff. The police said there was no indication of the cause of : death. a Notifiable diseases One case of infective J hepatitis and two of salmonfella were reported in the Christchurch Health District last week, the Medical f Officer of Health (Dr 1.. F. j I Jepson) said yesterday.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33451, 5 February 1974, Page 2
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