ALPINE RESCUES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26904, 16 October 1948, Page 6

ALPINE RESCUES

CO-OPERATION OF POLICE MINISTERIAL DIRECTION P.A. WELLINGTON, Oct. 15. All members of the police force had directions to co-operate with mountain and alpine tramping clubs when necessary, said the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr Parry, in a statement today. in which he outlined the action taken by various departments to cooperate with each other and with clubs when the question of alpine rescues arose. When a rescue or a search was to be made, the officer in charge of the nearest police district was to be communicated with at the c-arliest possible moment, and at the request of the police the R.N.Z.A.r. would take action for an aerial search or to drop food and rescue equipment. A list of appropriate officers of the R.N.Z.A.F. and the Public Works Department to whom the police should apply* in cases where the use of aeroplanes and trucks was necessary was being supplied to the Commissioner of A comprehensive system of air to ground and ground to air signals had been adopted by the police and circulated. “As in the past, the managers of various tourist resorts and the guides under their controll, wilPalways be ready to give prompt service if the necessity should arise,” said the who urged all those proposing to undertake journeys into high country to seek and act upon the advice of experienced mountaineers.

The Railways Department advertises in this issue particulars of alterations and additions to train services in connection with the Labour Day weekend.