SEARCHING FPR PAWELKA

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 20, 8 September 1911, Page 6

SEARCHING FPR PAWELKA

Second Edition

MOKAU DISTRICT. 4 1 (f’er Tt'bb Association.) Auckland, September 7. tt'tifetG is now htlte uoubt that the ■pfbseilce of a large number of police Mpkau country is due to the of Pawelka having come tilkt. iyay. A, fairly large area of counts 'is being scoured. _ . reason for the sudden invasion of . the district by tne police was duo f 6:, in|prmatiibn,. received from, a man trotting on Mount Messenger, who, it is said, knew Pawelka previously. Thisfriafx ,Mated. that Pawelka . was going Is (the direction of Mokau.. A man, resembling Pawelka was interviewed at Awakiho' without result, but the police tire said to still have every reason to believe in, the accuracy of the roadJnan’s report, as a strange man is said to be lurking round, the bush camps lip the Mokau River. Much of the country-in the Mokau district is in a wild state, and once the fugitive got in there some difficulty would be experienced in hunting him down.