Police calls

Press, 12 July 1988, Page 3

Police calls

Two trampers missing in the Benmore station area, near Springfield, were flown to safety yesterday afternoon.

Miss Carol Jamieson and Mr Bill Rogers, both of Christchurch, were picked up by an Air Force Iroquois helicopter near the north branch of the Selwyn River. Constable Keith Fletcher, of Darfield, said the pair had found a small man-made shelter which kept them out of the rain on Sunday night. They had been among a party of 13 from the Avon Tramping Club in Christchurch.

Miss Jamieson and Mr Rogers had turned back before the others and became lost.

The others completed the tramp and walked out late in the afternoon to find the pair had not returned. Two walked back into the bush on Sunday evening to try to find them. They walked out yesterday morning without seeing the missing pair.

Constable Fletcher said the crew of the helicopter found the missing pair and had to offload equipment before being able to pick them up in the turbulent north-westerly conditions.

• Two stranded jet boaters were brought out by four-wheel-drive vehicle from the upper reaches of the Waimakariri River yesterday morning after their jet boat was damaged on Sunday. The pair had spent a wet night in the Salmon Creek area before being picked up by a farmer. A third member of the party had walked out on Sunday afternoon to report the matter. • The woman hit by a locomotive at the Harewood Road railway crossing on Wednesday morning was transferred to The Princess Margaret Hospital on Sunday, but remains seriously ill. Mrs Dorothy Radonovich, aged 64, had been in Christchurch Hospital’s in-tensive-care unit until her transfer.