Vic: Water minister missing on Mt Feathertop

AAP General News (Australia)
08-31-2009
Vic: Water minister missing on Mt Feathertop

Police are trying to track down a weak signal from the mobile phone of Water Minister
TIM HOLDING .. who's missing on Mount Feathertop in the Victorian Alps.

Search coordinator Acting Superintendent WAYNE ROTHERHAM has told ABC radio a signal
was emitted from the phone late last night .. but it was weak and failed to provide a
location.

Police and SES volunteers are out searching for Mr HOLDING .. an experienced hiker
who went trekking alone on Saturday.

He sent a text message to his partner that night saying he'd reached Federation Hut
and would be home yesterday afternoon .. but never arrived.

Temperatures on the mountain plunged to minus seven over the weekend .. and the forecast
is for snow showers and strengthening winds today.

AAP RTV ees/gfr/jmt

KEYWORD: HOLDING (MELBOURNE)

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