THE MISSING MEN.

Grey River Argus, 12 February 1926, Page 5

THE MISSING MEN.

NO TRACE SINCE XMAS. The McKenzies’ Lonely Life. WELLINGTON, February 11. The absence of news ol the party of five men who leT Elfin Bay, in the Vest (Gast Sounds region, in October last, to out a licit,! of cattle, is causing anxiety among their

[iricml.s. The men arc: Marvin and Hugh Mcivcnzic. a pri -pcricr I ruin Dunedin ,a niusterer iToin Lumsden, and Chailes A. loxciuiL of Cnchungii. •Search parlies are now living organised by the National Mortgage aJid Agency Company, and the police arc sending men out Irorn Westland and Southland. It is stated that a tourist party which spent nearly a month in the district and visited McKenzie s homestead at ( hristmas, also a camp at Pig Bav, found no trace of human life. This l , coupled w’Hi ’l.o i..dis lung silence. has mcTe.t ijd the anxiety. The country is very rough and heavily timbered. Che M< Kenzie brothers are in coni act only tw'tv a year with the outside world under ordinary conditions, when the (ivV eminent steamer visits the neighbourhood. I t is recalled, as instancing the solitude wherein the brothers 1 n.e, that the Great War baa been in piogress for eight months before the i.tws reached the McKenzies.

TUP SEARCH. AID OF WARSHIP T<7.QUESTED. HOKITIKA. February 11. In connection with the men massing at. Mai tin’s Bay, in the Ear South, an Okuru correspondent advises that no information whatever is available regarding McKenzie ..ros. It has been customary for them to be absent for months aj a. tune without reporting themselves. The Hon. H. Michel Ims telegraphed to the Minister of Marine suggesting tha t his department dispatch a warship to the Sounds to assist m the search lor the missing men. A sister of the McKenzie Brothers resides here.