MISSING CLIMBERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 66, 15 September 1942, Page 3

MISSING CLIMBERS

LITTLE HOPE LEFT

! (P.A.) TIMARU, Sept. 14. The search for the missing mountaineers, Messrs. A.. D. Jackson and F. Tozer, Timaru, who are considerably overdue on a climbing trip in the Cass Valley, Mackenzie Country, has temporarily been abandoned. There is little; hope of the men being alive. The search parties found tracks on an unnamed peak, but no other sign. Bad weather hampered the search, and new snow finally forced' the searchers to give up. Mr. Jackson was a science master at the. boys' high school, and Mr. Tozer a student at Canterbury Training Col-j lege. ! Educated at the Napier Boys' High School and afterwards at Victoria University College, where he took his M.A. and M.Sc. degrees, Mr. Jackson started as a primary school teacher at Berhampore.. and later joined the staff of Wellington College, going from there to be science and mathematics master at the Timaru Boys' High School. From his first days at Timaru he spent all his holidays climbing in the Southern Alps, and was known as an intrepid mountaineer. In 1937 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain for exploration and mountaineering in the DartBarrier and Olivine Ranges of Western Otago during the seasons of 1934, 11935, 1936, and 1937. Under his leader-

ship, parties discovered, traversed, climbed, and mapped an area of country containing several glaciers, many peaks, and various river systems coving an area of approximately 500 square miles. The maps of the party have been accepted by the Survey Department of New Zealand. He was well known in sport, as an athlete and hurdler, and played Rugby for Victoria University College, having represented Wellington and New Zealand University, playing mainly as wing-three-quarter. He played with Mr. G. G. Aitken, his brother-in-law. in the University team. Both were nominated as Rhodes Scholars, Mr. Jackson withdrawing in Mr. Aitken's favour. Besides Mr. Aitken, Mr. Jackson has three brothers-in-law in Wellington, Drs. Walter J. Hope-Robert-son and B. F. Aldred, and Mr. N. P. Cress. He married Miss Iris Gray, of Kelburn Parade. There are no children.