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YOUNG REPORTER’S FATE. ROCK-CLIMBING TRAGEDY Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH. June 29. James .Scania n, aged nineteen, a member of the reporting siaff of the “Taranaki Herald.” disappeared front near the summit of Paritutu yesterday a fternoon. He and a companion named Stephenson had undertaken to climb the rock, which is 509 feet high, and were quite close to the summit when Scanlan, who was an exjeriemed climber decided to climb round a difficult roc:*, while Stephenson took an easier track M hen Stephenson reached the sum mit a few minutes later there was no sign of Scanlan who. apparently, had missed his footing and fallen. Search parties were sent out and two young men climbed the rock in the darkness, but no trace was found. The search was resumed this morning, when signs of Scanlon’s fall were found, indicating that his body will be found in the sen at the base of I ho roc k.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17576, 29 June 1925, Page 8
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