MISSING SAWMILLER.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19624, 21 May 1929, Page 9

MISSING SAWMILLER.

WIFE RETURNS TO AUCKLAND. SELLERS'S WHEREABOI OT KNOWN. [TBS PKEBS Special fttrrtce J AUCKLAND, May 20. Mrs Sellers, wife of Donald Sellers, aawmiller, of Tuakau, arrived back at Auckland on the Niagara thia afternoon. Mra Sellers and her husband had booked for Vancouver on the Aorangi some time before the vessel bulled. On the night ©f departure Mrs Seller* expressed anxiety concerning her husband'* failure to board th*» vessel. However, she wa# assured that all would be well and that be would come aboard later. AfWr the Aorangi was at sea, Mrs Sellers discovered that her huFhand *>ns not on board. Mr W. W. Meek, solicitor, of Auckland, who had acted for Mr Seller* for a number of years, met Mr* Sellers at the wharf this afternoon. It is stated thnt Mn« Sellers, who transhipped from the Aorangi to the Niagara at Sura, had only £3O in her possession whon she found herself alone. Phe said the money was gircn her by her mother-in-law. 'I bare been acting for Mr Sellers, who was the plaintiff in two small civil actions I was about to undertake." stated Mr Meek. "Like Mrs Sellers, I know of no reason why Mr Sellers should have failed to board the Aornnft. I don't know where >fr Sellers is at the moment, although it has been reported that he left for Australia on the Maunsantti after the Aorangi sailed."

Mr Meek nlso mentioned that Mrs Sellers'* mother-in-lsw at New Plymouth hud ■ letter for Mrs Sellers, pn-smnablv from the vanished husband.