‘I’m home, Mummy’
A Halswell girl, aged six, caused a stir yesterday when she apparently ran home from Hornby Mall — a distance of about 6km — after getting tired of waiting for her mother. The girl, who had been waiting in a car in the mall car-park, was found to be missing about midday. Her disappearance prompted a search of
/ the mall, and radio broadcasts. The alert ended about an hour later, when the mother telephoned home to talk with her husband. According to the Hornby police, the girl herself answered the telephone, to announce, “I’m home, Mummy.” A receptionist at the mall management office attributed the incident to the mother’s “spending too long looking at our ‘specials’.”
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Press, 25 February 1988, Page 2
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