YOUNG MEN MISSING
FEARS FOR SAFETY. (Per United Press Association.) Hokitika, January 16. On Tuesday, January 8, two young men, James Park, aged 18, son of the Crown Prosecutor at Hokitika, and John Morpeth, aged 16, son of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Hokitika, left Lake Kanieri for the purpose of walking over Browming’s Pass to Lake Coleridge. Their non-arrival on the due date and the heavy floods on Thursday caused search parties to be sent. out. After rough travelling the searchers from Kakatahi met the searchers from Coleridge yesterday, neither party having found any trace of the missing men, and the gravest fears are felt for their safety.
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Southland Times, Issue 20695, 17 January 1929, Page 6
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