MISSING TRAMPER

Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1935, Page 7

MISSING TRAMPER

SEARCHERS CAN FIND NO TRACE. RECALL OF PARTIES LIKELY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Carterton, Jan. 21. Searchers engaged in looking for Harold Goodman, who. was lost in the Tarurua Ranges, now number about 50 and over the week-end territory from Mount Reeves to Cone Hut and up the Waiohine Gorge to the forks and a wide area of adjacent country was thoroughly combed without finding the slightest trace of the missing camper. He is now a week overdue and it is understood. that the searchers will be recalled to-morrow unless circumstances warrant otherwise. The parties met very mixed week-end weather, but in spite of a temporary improvement yesterday, conditions indicate more rain. The rivers have all risen, making the search of the Waiohine riverbed impossible. Several searchers are due to come out to-night, but other local parties are going in to carry on. A Wellington message states that, all the parties which left on Thursday night have reported at the Cone Saddle .Hut with no news. One party has remained at the hut, and, supplemented by other parties which left on Saturday, will continue the search. One party went up the Waiohine Gorge to Totara Flat, following the river-bed. In places the searchers had to swim, and they think the chances of Goodman having negotiated this route rather remote. They also reported having seen no signs of any recent footprints on the track above the river. There were parties camped at Totara Flat for several days after Christmas and they saw no sign of Goodman. Indications are that Goodman may not even have reached Totara Flat.