STILL MISSING.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20311, 22 May 1934, Page 8

STILL MISSING.

Search for Runholder Continued. No trace has yet been found of Mr Stuart Leslie Rutherford, runholder, of Leslie Hills, since his disappearance on Saturday. An aeroplane, a launch and parties of police took part in the search of the Waimakariri River all day yesterday, the operations going on from daylight till dark. The search was continued to-day. Both banks of the river from the traffic bridge, where the abandoned car was found on Saturday morning, to the mouth were searched by the police yesterday and in the lower reaches of the river near Kairaki dragging was carried out from a launch. . Mr D. L. Rutherford, a brother of the missing man, took part in the search from the air, being piloted over the course of the river in one of the Canterbury Aero Club’s machines. The work of the searchers was handicapped owing to the state of the river, which was carrying more water than usual and which was discoloured by mud and silt. The river was clearer this morning and had dropped slightly.