MISSING IN RANGES

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 11

MISSING IN RANGES

TWO DEER-STALKERS

SEARCH PARTIES ACTIVE

(By Telecraph—Press Association.)

PALMERSTON N„ This Day.

A strong search party organised by the police left at dawn today to continue an unsuccessful search made throughout yesterday for two deerstalkers, Arthur Regan, single, aged 20. and Hugh Irwin Bowler, married, ( aged 22, who failed to return when i expected at 6 o'clock on Saturday night I after being out all day or. the Tara- j rua Ranges, behind Valmerston North. Their car was found on Grean's Road,' near the shooting area, but it is under- j stood that the two men must have gone • higher up to bush country. The pairi carried sufficient food for three meals. I

The weather on Sunday was much worse than on Saturday, rain and fog making it doubtful if wood could be found dry enough to make a fire. Visibility was reduced to a minimum, fog lying to the ground level.

Shots were fired yesterday, and one party, led by Mr. I>. Honore, an experienced bushman with a mill in the vicinity, said that they thought they heard a reply, but could not ascertain its direction. It is most deceptive country and treacherous in bad weather., In the past parties lost in the same area had sometimes come out on the Wairarapa side. The police have parties operating both from Pahiatua and Eketahuna. If the stalkers come out unaided it is expected that they will show up at the headwaters of the Tiritea Stream. Fine weather prevails in the city today, and conditions on the ranges are apparently very much better.