YOUTH “GOES NATIVE”
MONTH HIDING IN BUSH SEARCH ERS ELUDED (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. It is extraordinary that a youth should secrete himself in the bush adjacent to his home at Wakari, eluding searchers for a month. Yet this .'.s what Frank Allan, aged 17. has done. On February 9 Allan left home after breakfast to go to work at a sawmill, but he did not return that night nor since. His parents were not concerned for the first few days, thinking he had gone to stay with relatives. Later, however, they became perturbed when inquiries failed to locate the lad. Subsequently he was seen by residents about the bush, but a search by the police, Boy Scouts and relatives failed to locate him.
Apparently the youth is existing on turnips and any other food he can find, and is voluntarily putting in a lonely time wandering among the dense scrub. These privations have not weakened the wanderer’s determination to “go native” and, despite a vigilant search and keen look-out, efforts have up m midday been unsuccessful.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19883, 9 March 1939, Page 6
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