TRAGEDY FEARED

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1932, Page 9

TRAGEDY FEARED

TWO MEN MISSING

A WELLINGTON PARTY

Residents of Pirinoa, Wairarapa, and a party of police are searching today for Mr. Ben Campbell, a member of a^ Wellington duck-shooting party, and Mr. Tim Anderson, an employee at Mr. Arthur Warren's station, who set off together at about 1 a.m. yesterday to lay decoys on Lake Ferry. Since then they have not been seen.

The small boat uses by the two men was found capsized in the water near the Lake Ferry Hotel between ■ 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. The oars were found floating about.lOO yards away. It is feared; that the frail craft capsized in the "Narrows" and was afterwards car^ ried to the shore by the wind.

A sporting dog which accompanied Messrs. Campbell and Anderson when they left for the lake returned h6me alone about midday yesterday, and later disappeared. •Mr, Campbell,' who is a well-known; Wellington sportsman and a member, of the firm of D. Campbell arid Son, left Wellington on Wednesday afternoon with Mr. GeorgV Olds, Mr. Harry Shanks, and- another man whose name at present is not known* , Mr. Olds and Mr. Shanks were shooting on v '"the lake yesterday morning; but did not | suspect that anything, was, wrong until they returned-to their camp on Mr. Warren's; station' about midday and found the dog. ' ,

Mr. Anderson ia about 18 years of ago. It is understood that he Has no relatives in New Zealand. '•■.■'-■