GIRLS FOUND

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 281, 25 October 1934, Page 2

GIRLS FOUND

WEARY AND HUNGRY.

AFTER SEARCH IN RANGES.

As announced in the second edition of the “Standard”. yesterday, the two girls who had been missing in the lluahine Ranges since Monday last, Misses Olive Phillips and Hallie Stanfield, of Te Rehunga, were located by searchers in the afternoon, after wandering in the ranges a few miles from Dannevirke.

A Press Association message from Dannevirke states that an intimation that the girls had been found was conveyed by areroplane to the anxious relatives at 2.30 p.m. yesterday, when the machine dipped and rolled over Mr Stanfield’s residence. Then followed a wait of a couple of hours before the rescuers and rescued made their exit from the bush-clad country, and it was not long before the girls were back in their respective homes, muddy and fatigued. Apart from torn clothes and feet wrapped in sacking and a begrimed appearance the girls showed little sign of their unenviable experience. The rescue party, comprising Messrs S. and W. Stanfield and J. and A. Coldstream, set out early on Tuesday morning, but nothing had been hoard from them yesterday morning. However, Mr Stanfield, father of the missing girl, was confident they had succeeded in their quest, and his faith was justified. The girls were located about 3 p.m. on Tuesday, halfway between Te Rehunga and Pohangina. Members of the rescue party said they had been able to track the girls in all their wanderings coming up with them about a day after they had been last seen. AVhen found the girls were about exhausted. They were hopelessly lost and were weary and hungry. They were quickly made comfortable before a cheery camp fire, and under the influence of the warmth and food their spirits quickly revived. Tuesday night was passed comfortably m contrast to the previous night, during most of which the girls wandered aimlessly, weary and hungry, their discomfiture being accentuated through being wet and muddy. The homeward journey was not commenced yesterday till alter a mountain fog had lifted. The tennis shoes that the girls set out in were torn to shreds, the men improvising foot coverings of sacking.