National alert for girls

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32666, 23 July 1971, Page 2

National alert for girls

(N.Z.P.A. Stafj Correspondent)

CHARTERS TOWERS (Queensland), July 22.

A national police alert has been issued in the search for the two missing daughters of a New Zealand geologist.

The children, Lynda Anne Jones, aged four, and her sister, Ann Tracey; aged two, were last seen in Maryborough, 150 miles north of Brisbane, on July 10, with their housekeeper, a man, and another three children. The girls had earlier been seen entering a car at Charters Towers, with the housekeeper and her family, on July 4. Charters Towers, 990 miles north of Brisbane, was where the girls’ father, Bruce Henry Jones, was employed by a Sydney mining company. The police said today that they were concerned for the safety of the two children.

Mr Jones had been employed in outback Queensland for about six months, and used Charters Towers as

his base. He returned to the town earlier this month from a geology trip at Georgetown, 350 miles away, to find his daughters gone. During his absences on field trips the girls were looked after by the housekeeper. The police said Mrs Jones lived at Forbes, in New South Wales.

The housekeeper, her three children, the two Jones girls, and a man had stayed at a flat in Maryborough from July 7 to 10. After that they had disappeared, said the police. Police all round Australia have been .asked to watch for the missing children. Mr Jones left Charters Towers to drive to Sydney yesterday.