HOPES ABANDONED

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1927, Page 8

HOPES ABANDONED

MISSING SCHOOL TEACHER (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, 4th March. Practically all hope of finding Eric Loo Palmer, the young school teacher who has been missing in the Bcmuore country since Sunday last, has now been abandoned. The search was kept up all day yesterday, and a small party, including the unfortunate young man's father, was out to-day. It is understood that unless the missiug man is located by this evening . the search will be relinquished. There seems to be little doubt that Palmer, after leaving his companions, attempted to penetrate into the country known as "No Man's Land," at the back of Benmorc. This is steep, precipitous country, characterised in many places by sheer precipices 300 to 400 feet in height, containing many enormous shingle slips. Any attempt to cross somo ot these slips is fatal, as the shingle, once set on the move, would almost inevitably bury the adventurer It is feared that Palmer has probably been carried down in one of these slips. In any case, the country in the vicinity, is so nigged and broken that it is almost impossible to traverse, and the searchers' task would bo superhuman and almost certainly foredoomed to failure, as it would be quite possible to be within feet of the missing man and never see him.