{"id":217618,"date":"2026-01-05T09:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217618\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:35:10","slug":"police-search-and-rescue-continue-search-for-tramper-missing-in-kahurangi-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217618\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Search and Rescue continue search for tramper missing in Kahurangi National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe will be using a radar tomorrow so ask members of the public to steer clear of our search areas,\u201d Evans said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Tomorrow the following areas in the Baton Valley will be closed while Police Search and Rescue teams search for the 66-year-old:<\/p>\n<p>Wilkinson TrackBaton SaddleLoveridge Spur RouteCowin Spur TrackWharepapa Arthur Range \u2013 from Mount Star through to the TwinsWalking track to Flanagans Hut<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The search will involve the use of Recco detecting equipment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Evans said police wanted to hear from anyone with whom police haven\u2019t spoken who was in the Baton\/Ellis River area from the afternoon of December 26, particularly anyone who was around Flanagan\u2019s Hut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Any sightings or information can be reported at 105.police.govt.nz, clicking \u201cUpdate report\u201d, or by calling 105. Please use the reference number P064981672.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe will be using a radar tomorrow so ask members of the public to steer clear of our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,803,15293,2082,305,87596,78,3096,19634,685,6501,3556,111,43,139,69,8143,675,8527,1870,1240,165,108852,2201,379],"class_list":["post-217618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-and","tag-continue","tag-continued","tag-for","tag-have","tag-hiker","tag-in","tag-islands","tag-kahurangi","tag-last","tag-missing","tag-national","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-park","tag-police","tag-rescue","tag-search","tag-south","tag-their","tag-tramper","tag-went","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}