MISSING CHILDREN FOUND

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 220, 13 June 1936, Page 16

MISSING CHILDREN FOUND

Went to Sleep in Old

Motor-car By Telegraph—Press Association. Invercargill, J uno 12After having been reported missing for over 24 hours, three young children were found by their father in Yt.lian Street this afternoon. All were unhurt, n.n<l none the worse for having slept out all night. The children, Helen Shanks, aged eight, and her brothers, Gordon and Colin', aged seven and live respectively, left, their home at 82 Couon Street about 12-15 p.m. on Thursday to return to South School for the afternoon. When they failed to put in an appearance at home again about tea time the parents became anxious, and later in the evening they were reported to the police as missing. Several friends assisted in a search for the children, but it was not until this aft'ernoou that Mr. .Shanks found them.

The story they told their parents was that they had been playing iu an old. motor-ear on their way home from school on Thursday and had fallen asleep. When they awoke it was pitch dark and they had been afraid to return home.