PROSPECTOR’S BODY FOUND
IHAW WHO DISAPPEARED IN MAY (From Our Own Correspondent) TAKAKA, This Day. The discovery is reported of the body of Donald Cameron, a gold orospector, who has been lost in the hills behind Takaka since early in May. It will be remembered that Cameron, who was camped with a fallow prospc—-or, left camp, intending to go to Anatoki Forks to obtain stores, but he failed to reach Ms destination. For several weeks parties conducted a fruitless search. He was found on Wednesday near Paradise Creek by Jack Ross, a prospector. The body had evidently been frozen in the snow for some time, but hau commenced to decompose with the approach of warmer weather. ' Constable Audley, accompanied by a party of men, went into the Anatoki yesterday, and are expected to arrive back with the body this evening. Cameron had a wife and family in Wellington.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 3 October 1936, Page 7
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