Story: Search and rescue

Radio equipment, 1989

Men crouching around a radio, one listening to a radio transmitter.

Radio remains a vital tool in search and rescue operations. Radio operator Robert Young waits for news from rescue parties at search headquarters during the hunt for three Venturer Scouts missing in the Tararua Range in June 1989. The trio were found safe and well.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1989/2134/23-F

by Jon Hargest

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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How to cite this page

Nancy Swarbrick and Dan Clearwater, Search and rescue – Rescue equipment and techniques, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/13221/radio-equipment-1989 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick and Dan Clearwater, published 2 March 2009, reviewed and revised 27 July 2023 with assistance from Dan Clearwater.