3 WOMEN HIKERS FOUND UNHURT ON WAITAKERES

Northern Advocate, 12 March 1941, Page 2

3 WOMEN HIKERS FOUND UNHURT ON WAITAKERES

[Special to “Northern Advocate ”] AUCKLAND, This Day.

Calls from one of a party of three young women trampers lost in the Waitakere ranges since Friday were heard by a settler in the Huia Gorge last night an|d early ithis ynjorning searchers proceeded up the gorge to find the other two who had remained in the rough bush camp which the three had made when they realised that they were lost. Little The Worse. The one who came down the gorge to seek help was Mrs. A. W. Fiveash who lives at 164 Ponsonby Road. She looked little the worse excepi for scratches on the legs from scrambling through undergrowth. She said the party camped on Friday night on an overgrown track near Little Huia and it was not until Saturday that they felt doubtful about their position. Having plenty of tinned food and water from the stream they decided to await help. After two nights Mrs Fiveash decided to go downstream for help.

She called loudly for help from 2 o’clock in the afternoon and the calls were heard about 9 o’clock last night by a son of Mr. A. E. Fletcher who owns a farm at the foot of the Karamatura Gorge. Searchers found her and brought her to the farm house.

The other two trampers, Misses Hazel Parker, aged 21, and Erica Rent, aged 26, were found by a large search party comprising residents and police early this afternoon. Thdy were suffering slightly from exposure, but otherwise were little the worse.