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• MISSING STUDENTS. SEARCH PARTIES- OUT. CONVERGING ON LIKELY PLACE. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) MASTERTON, April 22. No news lias yet been received of. the search parties having found any trace of Scanlon and Diedricli, who are astray in the Tararua Ranges, but the searchers who returned from the top of the range to-night state that the parties are converging on the basin lying between Alitre Peak and Ohau Valley where experienced bushmen and Hampers consider the missing men are located.
A consignment of homing pigeons were packed into the lower range today for the quick dispatch to Masterton of any news of the missing men. A public subscription lias been opened, to provide the searchers with food. . WELLINGTON, April 22. No tidings of the two youths, Desmond Scanlon and Roy Deidrich, who set out from Levin on last Thursday week in an attempt to cross the Tararua Range to the Wairarapa. but have not since been heard of, had been received at a late hour to-night. Those already searching nil] be supplemented morning Ly strong parties >pn the eastern and western sides of the range. It is now estimated that close on 60 experienced trampers are engaged in the search.
OTARI PARTIES ORGANISED. OTAKI, April 23. Constable Satherley has arranged for search parties for the massing men. Some of the members left last- nightand others this morning.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 April 1927, Page 5
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229NO NEWS YET Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 April 1927, Page 5
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