Boys lost 20 hours
PA Masterton Two missing schoolboys, Tony Allan and Peter Wheeler, both aged 12, walked out of the bush behind Featherston on Monday morning, nearly 20 hours after becoming lost The two boys went into scrubland behind the Featherston Domain about 1 p.m. on Sunday, to visit a play fort. Later they crossed a blackberry-covered creek and then found that they were unable to get back. They eventually found their way into open grassland where they put up a plastic sheet for shelter for thenight. ’ “We were pretty worried when we realised we were
lost,” Tony said. “We both sat down and cried for a while. We didn’t get much sleep during the night because it got really cold." The boys had two apples and half a bottle of orange drink. Both - were warmly dressed in jeans, gumboots, and parkas and were little worse for wear.
Search parties had been out looking for the boys since late on Sunday afternoon and were out again at dawn on Monday.
However the boys managed to find their, own way out soon after 8 a.m. and were seen walking. through Featherston.
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Press, 21 July 1982, Page 15
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