TRAMPERS OVERDUE
SEARCH PROVES SUCCESSFUL. (Per United Press Association.) Wai mate, March 26. Parties were out all Monday searching the hills for Messrs A. K. Cooper and H. W. Scott, who set out at seven o’clock on Sunday morning to walk to and climb Mount Studholme, aiming to do it all and return by the evening. They were not home by daybreak on Monday and anxiety was occasioned, particularly as the night was cold and heavy rain fell. Cooper walked into a farm house many miles from Mount Studholme on Monday afternoon after a nineteen hour tramp across hilly country, having lost touch with Scott and lost his bearings in the fog. Scott was discovered by the searchers at dusk in an exhausted condition,
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Southland Times, Issue 20447, 27 March 1928, Page 4
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124TRAMPERS OVERDUE Southland Times, Issue 20447, 27 March 1928, Page 4
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