SEARCHING FOR POWELKA.
POLICE SCOURING MOKAU
DISTRICT.
STRANGE MAN LURKING ABOUT.
WILD AND DIFFICULT COUNTRY. EPEE, PRESS ASSOCIATION.J AUCKLAND, Sept. 7. There is now little doubt that the presence' of a large number of police in the Mokau. country is due to the. possibility of Powelka having come tlxat way. A fairly large area of country is being scoured, a'nd the reason for the sudden, invasion of the district by the police was due to the information received from a. man working on Mount Messenger, who, it is said, knew Powelka previously. This man stated that _ Powelka was going in the direction of Mokau, and a man. resembling Powelka was interviewed at Awakino, without any result, but the police are said to: still have every reason to believe in the accuracy of the roadman’s report., as a strange' man is said to be lurking round the bush camps up the Mokau river. Much of the country in the Mokau district is in a wild state, and once a fugitive got in there some difficulty would be experienced in hunting him down.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3317, 8 September 1911, Page 5
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181SEARCHING FOR POWELKA. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3317, 8 September 1911, Page 5
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