AUCKLAND BOY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12297, 10 April 1937, Page 2

AUCKLAND BOY

STlt.\.\l)Hl) IX SYDNEY

Melbourne, April S

Gordon Beehre, aged 10, of Auckland, who travelled alone in the Wanganella from New Zealand, has been asking lor his mother for two days. He expected his parents to be on the wharf to meet him, but so far, in spite of the assistance of the Travellers’ Aid Society and the police of two States, they have not been traced. Gordon’s parents left him in charge of an aunt in New Zealand IS months ago, when they came to Australia. The only clue to their present whereabouts is a letter addressed “Mrs Beehre, Melbourne,’’ which Gordon brought with him.

The letter revealed that Mrs Beehre had been receiving her mail at the General Post Oflic, and inquiries there resulted in the discovery of an unclaimed cablegram from Gordon’s aunt stating that he had left New Zealand,

The local office of the HuddartParker Company stated that the hoy’s passage was booked by his guardian in Auckland, presumably the aunt referred to in the cable, who also made arrangements with a passenger aboard the Wanganella to look after him on the voyage. Children are not allowed to travel in the company’s vessels, it was stated, 6xcept under the charge of an adult. No advice of the lad's plight had been received by the company's office here, and the name and address of the person who had booked the lad’s passage were not known.