MALTE BRUN TRAGEDY
BODY OF ONE CLIMBER IDENTIFIED Christchurch, This Day. A party of climbers which left the Ball Hut on Saturday morning to bring back the bodies of leading Aircraftman Wilfred Frank Wallis, of Christchurch. and Sergeant Patrick Morton, of Auckland, returned to the Hermitage in the evening of the same day after an unsuccessful attempt. Bad weather on Mount Malte Brun prevented the party from bringing in the body previously discovered by Messrs B. S. Gillies and H. J. Stephenson, and also from searching for the body of the other missing climber. An earlier report stated that both bodies had been found. Inspector D. L. Calwell, of the Timaru Police district, said on Saturday that only one body has so far been discovered. It has now been identified as that of L.A.C. Wallis. The party, which will make a further attempt to find the other body when the weather improves, is led by Constable J. I. K. Preston, of Fairlie.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 10 January 1944, Page 2
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