PROSPECTOR DROWNED
WEST COAST TRAGEDY. SEARCH FOR BODY. (Ter United Press Association.) Dunedin, June 25. News has been received here from Queenstown that Alfred Edward Wade, of Wairarapa, was drowned in the Lower Hollyford river, West Coast, on June 11. With his mate, Stanley Shaw, he had been prospecting for gold for some weeks. Shaw made an 80-mile journey from the coast to Elfin Bay with the news. The men rowed over the river in a boat on June 3, landing stores, when Wade rowed the boat back and swam across with difficulty. The men travelled on foot to Kaipo Bay, but encountered such difficulties that they decided to return. Wade went ahead to swim the river and bring the boat back for the transport of stores, but when Shaw arrived two hours later Wade was missing. His clothes were on the bank. Eventually Shaw crossed on a raft, and after four days’ search trekked for civilization. A police party is leaving to-night with Shaw to search for the missing'man’s body.
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Southland Times, Issue 21430, 26 June 1931, Page 7
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