MISSING NEW ZEALAND GIRL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 207, 1 September 1932, Page 14

MISSING NEW ZEALAND GIRL.

DEPARTURE FROM DUNEDIN.

INQUIRIES IN SYDNEY.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

DUNEDIN, this day. Regarding the cable message received yesterday from Sydney commenting on the remarkable likeness between Miss Bentley, a bank employee, and a miseLng New Zealand girl, Miss Halligan, it is learned that the latter left Dunedin on December 0, 1928, without informing her relatives as to her immediate intentions. Since that date her mother has heard of her, but has received no word from her. In pursuance of a desire v to trace her daughter Mrs. Halligan recently for-, warded to a private inquiry agency in Sydney the facts of her daughter's departure and a request that steps should be taken to ascertain -her whereabouts. No doubt this agency circulated Mies Halligan's photograph to Sydney newspapers. When Miss Halligan left Dunedin 6he had some money in her possession, but as she had a banking account in her own name the amount could not be ascertained. The parents have now communicated with a Sydney iresident, formerly a Dunedin resident, who has known the missing woman all her life, asking Mm to ascertain whether Miss Bentley and Miss Halligan are identical.