MISSING MEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 February 1926, Page 4

MISSING MEN

THREE AUCKLAND CASES.

(Per Press Association.)

- AUCKLAND/ January 31. The. disappearance of Mr. Raymond 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. 1 Takapuna residents are scouring the district but ,so far without success. There is still ho news of Mr. J. W. W. Hall, indent agent, of .Auckland, who disappeared from Karekare, on the West Coast, last Thursday. Mr. Hall, who is about 60 years of', age, was a visitor to the Karekare boardinghouse, and at about 4 o’clock on Thursday afternoon he left the house to go surf bathing. He did not return to the house, and nothing has been seen or heard of him since. Fears are also entertained for the safety of an elderly man ,Mr. Michael Middleton, who is thought to have been drowned this morning when fishing from a dinghy in the harbour. The empty dinghy was found tied; to the. rudder of the hulk Gladbrook, with the oars in the rowlocks, and a fishing line set. Mr. Middleton was an employee of the Harbour Board. It is understood that he borrowed the j Board’s dinghy, and he left his watch and bosun’s whistle in the shed from which he took the oars.