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Kōrero: Search and rescue

Search dog and handler

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An Australian cattle dog sits in the back of a ute with a man covered in mud.

Search dog Jack and his handler, volunteer Malcolm York, rest after an exhausting day in the bush. They were taking part in the search for an English tourist, who went missing in dense bush on the Coromandel Peninsula in April 2006 and was later found dead. Jack, an Australian cattle dog, had been trained to use his hunting instincts to find missing people, then bark to attract the attention of searchers.

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Waikato Times

Reference: 15 April 2006, p. D2

by Iain McGregor

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Nancy Swarbrick rāua ko Dan Clearwater, Search and rescue – Volunteers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/13215/search-dog-and-handler (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick rāua ko Dan Clearwater, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, reviewed and revised 27 July 2023 me te āwhina o Dan Clearwater.