MISSING TRAMPERS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 113, 27 April 1933, Page 5

MISSING TRAMPERS

SEARCH UNSUCCESSFUL. MASTERTON, April 26. The search for Miss M. Williams, of Wanganui, Mr F. Hill and Dr. IV. B. Sutch, of Palmerston North, and Mr A. H. O’Keefe, of Wellington, the missing trampers on the Tararau range, continues. The ranges cleared temper, arily this morning, enabling aerial observations to be made by a Wairarapa ’plane, which found conditions exceptionally rough and bumpy. The ’plane proceeded from the Ruamahanga river head waters to Mount Holdsworth, but saw no signs except light smoke inland from Greytown, to which no importance was attached. A party returned this morning from Ruahanga in an effort to locate the smoke seen the previous day, but failed. Another party setting out for the same locality believed |hat the smoke came from a shooters’ camp, as a shot was heard this morning. Rain has recommenced and the ranges are again obscured m clouds.

CONDITIONS AT TE MATAWAI

SEARCHERS ABLE TO LEAVE PALMERSTON N., April 26. Milder conditions at the searchers’ base at Te Matawai hut are reported in a radio message picked up here today in connection with tho search for the missing trampers. Four searchers got under way from the hut this morning, after being weatherbound for several days, and set out for Mitre Flat. Simultaneously a Levin party of three left to establish a camp in the Waiohine Valley. A relief party of four left here to-day for Te Matawai, where only the radio operator remains on duty.