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NINETY MEN ENGAGED MISSING TEACHER RETURNS (Special) TAPANUI. Jan. 26. When a school teacher, Mr A. F. N. Coxon, aged 20. failed to return to Tapanui after setting out alone on a tramp over the Blue Mountains yesterday morning, anxietv was ffelt for his safety. This morning, 24 hours after Mr Coxon left Tapanui, five parties, consisting of about 90 men altogether, set out to search for him. Heavy ram the previous day and thick fog which covered the mountains added considerably to their difficulties. After a fruitless search all day. arrangements were made for a more intensive one to-mor-row.
About 9 o’clock last night, however, Mr Coxon himself reported by telephone that he had arrived some time previously at a farmhouse in Clydevale, which is on the easteryi side of the Blue Mountains. Mr Coxon stated that he was fit aud well, and) was just about to sit down to a meal, the first he had had since about mid-day yesterday. Mr Coxon, whose mother resides in Forfar street, Dunedin, has bepn working in the linen flax factory in Tapanui during the school vacation. He left the factory at 9 o’clock on Sunday morning,. and as he only carried hjs lunch it is surmised that he lost his ; way in the fog.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24825, 27 January 1942, Page 4
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216SEARCH FOR TRAMPER Otago Daily Times, Issue 24825, 27 January 1942, Page 4
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