Puku a two-year-old golden labrador, excavates Mr Richard Garden (right), of Queenstown, after he was buried in an exercise during the alpine search dog course above the Mount Hutt ski-field yesterday. At left is Puku’s owner, Ms Sharon Ward, a member of the Mount Hutt ski patrol. Eight handlers from Otago and Canterbury are at Mount Hutt with their dogs for the two-day course. All are members of New Zealand Alpine Search Dogs, a volunteer group with dogs trained to find people buried by avalanches, people missing in the high country, or, in cities, to find people trapped after earthquakes -Photograph by DAVID WETHEY.
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104Puku a two-year-old golden labrador, excavates Mr Richard Garden (right), of Queenstown, after he was buried in an exercise during the alpine search dog course above the Mount Hutt ski-field yesterday. At left is Puku’s owner, Ms Sharon Ward, a member of the Mount Hutt ski patrol. Eight handlers from Otago and Canterbury are at Mount Hutt with their dogs for the two-day course. All are members of New Zealand Alpine Search Dogs, a volunteer group with dogs trained to find people buried by avalanches, people missing in the high country, or, in cities, to find people trapped after earthquakes -Photograph by DAVID WETHEY. Press, 8 September 1989, Page 1
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