Police scale down lake search
The police yesterday scaled down the search for the bbdy of a young Ashburton fisherman who has been missing on.. Lake .Ellesmere since-Tuesday.. . Riki David . Rogers,’, aged 18, left Fishmermen’s Point in a four-metre runabout on Tuesday morning to- lift commercial, fishing nets.. Local fishermen organised search when Mr Rogers failed to return, and late on Tuesday evening they found his . boat sunk in three metres of water.' A’helicopter search found no ’trace of the . missing
youth;' Yesterday the police again used grappling hooks to drag the. lake, but without success.?, : . The police search and rescue controller in. Christchurch (Sergeant R. G. Gargett) said yesterday that the search would be reduced tc patrols of' the lakeshore from this’ morning. Sergeant Gargett praised the efforts of the local fishermen. “They organised their own search ’ right from the start, and worked on in atrocious .conditions,” he said.
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