MISSING MEN

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 26, 1 February 1926, Page 9

MISSING MEN

THREE DISAPPEARANCES CAUSE ANXIETY IN AUCKLAND.

(BI TELBOIUI>H.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, 31st Januarys The disappearance of Eaymond H. Lewins, aged 25 years,,a surveyor attached to the Takapuna Borough Council staff, is causing anxiety. He ■was last seen on Thursday afternoon at the Ferry Wharf. Large parties of, Takapuna residents are scouring the district, so far without success. ' There is still no news of J. W. Hall, indent agent, of Auckland, who disappeared from Karekare, on the West , Coast" ' last Thursday. Hall, who is about Off years of age, was a visitor to the Karekare boarding-house, and about 4.p.m. on Thursday, he left the house to, go surf bathing. • He did not i return to the house, and nothing has. been seen, or hoard of him since. Fears niu also entertained for the safety oi'. on. elderly man, Michael Middleton, who is thought*''to have been 'drowned, (his morning when fishing from v dinghy in the harbour. An empty dinghy was .found tied to the rudder of the hulk Gladbrook, with oars in the rowlocks and a fishing line set. Middlcton was an employee of the Harbour Board. It is understood that he borrowed the board's dinghy, and left a watch and chain and a bosun's whistle in the shed from which* he took the oars.

Two aeroplanes now make a special assent every day ut Duxford, Cnmbriclge,<hire, for the puipose of reporting the weather.