LOST TRAPPER.
Search Party Discovers Body. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 20. A party of searchers in the Tararua Ranges to-day found the body of the missing trapper, Alfred Young, aged twenty-two, near the Cone. The party was equipped with a portable radio apparatus, and communicated with the Wellington police. The police immediately left to examine the body. A party of sixteen is staying out to-night, and to-morrow morning will take the body to the Cone hut, about two hours’ journey from where the body was discovered. A small party will leave Greytown with two pack-horses and proceed to the Cone hut, and bring the body to Woodside, near Greytown, where they 4re expected to arrive late in the afternoon. The Cone is a peak, 3547 ft in height, on the saddle between Mount Hector and Mount Reeves. The ridge lies between the Waiohine and Tauherenikau watersheds. The country w T as difficult for the searchers, who set out on Saturday with very meagre information.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20310, 21 May 1934, Page 4
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165LOST TRAPPER. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20310, 21 May 1934, Page 4
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