Police say three climbers missed their rendezvous at 8:30 yesterday morning.

A combined search effort by Police and the Department of Conservation was launched four hours later, but was paused by bad weather..

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23 Jan: Destruction and tragedy have come in the wake of slips caused by record rainfall in the upper North Island

23 Jan: Several people including children are still missing after the landslide at Mount Maunganui - where search teams have been working through the night

22 Jan: Two bodies have been found at a house on Papamoa's Welcome Bay Road - after a large landslide caused extensive damage early this morning

22 Jan: Bay of Plenty's State Highway 5 is blocked, near Waipunga - where a truck's rolled and spilled gravel over the road

22 Jan: A large slip at Mt Maunganui's Mauao has hit the campsite at the hill's base

22 Jan: Two people are unaccounted for and another is badly injured after a landslide at a house in Papamoa

21 Jan: A person's suffered serious injuries after an assault in Auckland's Mount Wellington

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