SHELTERING UNDER ROCK

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 140, 16 June 1922, Page 8

SHELTERING UNDER ROCK

'SEAR SPOT WHERE LEFT A WEEK AGO. ■ Information was received shortly after noon by the Post and Telegraph Depart- , ment from the search parties on the Tararuas that the missing trampeiy E. J. Kime, lost since Saturday last, had been ■ found alive and conscious, sheltering • Tindter a rock near the spot where his i mate Bollons parted with him on Satur- ■ day'morning last. The place was on the \ westward side o£ Alpha hut, on the way /to I&ounfc Hector. From the scanty inV formation available at the time of writUng,:it appears that the missing man very i wiady decided, under the circumstances, ■ to stay where he was in the hope of be- ) ings found. He was reported to be in a ! better condition than Bollons was when [he "waa found in the Tauherenikau hut 'late on Tuesday night, insensible through ;7iar3ship and privation. Kime was found yesterday^ and was carried to the Alpha hut; which was reached last night. fFnrther news is expected any time. : liter information was received from i.MrJ.A. A. M'Gregor, of the Telegraph ["Department, with the search party, that [Kime was found at 10.30 yesterday mom! ! ing, at a spot about two hours along the track from Alpha hut, but slightly away from the track. The party hopes to get Kimo to Greytown by noon tomorrow, j A message from Carterton states: i Kime was found yesterday afternoon by Mr. F. .W. Vosseller within twenty ■ mimites of the , top of Mount Hector, alive and well, considering his privation and.;, exposure. He was on the sunny side of the mountain, in the locality known as Bee Hives. He had plenty of food, but no blankets or coverings except his ordinary clothes, and was brought into Greytown by Messrs. G. B. Brown and Vosseller, and Kime spent the night at the Alpha Hut. They will reach Woodville to-day by the train for Wellington.