THE MISSING TOURIST.
STATEMENT BY THE POLICE. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ' ASSOCIATION.] Invercabgill, Saturday. • Regarding tlie stranger missing in the Lakes district Inspector Mitchell states that' ; the man went inland from the head of Wakatipu on the Bth ult.; against the advice of residents of Queenstown. V ; The police were informed on the 29th that he was missing, probably on the Milford track. A party of Invercargill sportsmen on their return to Queenstown on May : '.} 6 stated that they had found on the Te . Anau route a camp -a fortnight old, one and a-half miles from the Government hut, • . which is situated ,10 or 12 miles from the i mouth of the Greenstone River. The sup- | position is that a man lost his way between ; the camp and the hut. Another party t which has returned to Martin's Bay saw no trace on the Mil ford track. As the t'f|| country was broken and a portion under snow residents consider a search party use- | less. • The missing man was considered ec- r ; centric. ' /C'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13486, 13 May 1907, Page 4
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173THE MISSING TOURIST. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13486, 13 May 1907, Page 4
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