YOUNG MEN MISSING.
FEARS FOR THEIR SAFETY. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.) HOKITIKA, Wednesday. "V On Monday, January 8, two young 1 men, James Park, aged 18, a son of Mr J. Park, Crown Prosecutor at Hokitika, and John Morpeth, aged 16, a son of Mr W. T. Morpeth, commissioner of Crown Lands at Hokitika, left Lake Kanieri for the purpose of walking over Browning’s Pass to Lake Coleridge. Their con-arrival on the due date, and the heavy floods of Thursday last, caused search parties to be sent out. ’ After , rough travelling the searchers. from Kokatahi met searchers from Coleridge yesterday, neither party having found any trace of the youths. The gravest fears are felt for their safety.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17612, 17 January 1929, Page 8
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