PROSPECTOR’S FATE
BODY FOUND IN HILLS
FIVE MONTHS MISSING
(Per Press Association.) NELSON, this day.
The discovery is reported of the nody of Donald Cameron, a gold prospector who has heen lost in the bills behind Ta-kaka since early in May.
It will be remembered that, Cameron, who was camped with a fellow prospector, left the camp intending to go to Anatoki Forks to obtain stores, butfailed to reach Ins destination. For several weeks parties had conducted a fruitless search.
The body was found on Wednesday, near Paradise Creek, by Air. Jack Ross, a prospector. The body evidently bad been frozen in the snow for some time. The body is being brought to Takaka. Cameron had a wife and family in Web lington. »
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 6
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