HIKING CALAMITY
TRAGEDY FEARED
CtREYMOUTH, Tliis Day
Three men, believed to be Canterbury teachers, whose names are given as Smith, Robin and Keen, left Hokitika on January sth or 1 6th., on a tour to Carrington Hut on the Waimakariki, and there was no news of them until to-day, when the Greyomoutli police received a message from Bealey, stating that the men are believed to be seventeen miles in the back country. Smith and Robin are reported to be dead and the other man wandering about.
A search party left this morning, headed by Constable Robb, of Otira.
ANOTHER VERSION.
ONE MAN SAFE.
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.]
Tragedy is believed to have overtaken a camping party on Harmin Pass, in the main Alpine divide.
A message received from the Bealey stated that one of the campers named Smith is dead and another named I. Robins had wandered from camp and was missing. There was little hope that he would be found alive. A third member, named Loney (or Keen), is, safe.-
A sedrcli party left the Bealey this morning with pack horses and food. The three men are believed to be Canterbury school teachers, but- the news is meagre.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 January 1932, Page 5
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198HIKING CALAMITY Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 January 1932, Page 5
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