MISSING PEOPLE

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 April 1937, Page 7

MISSING PEOPLE

| GERALDINE TOWN CLERK LAST SEEN ON TRAIN [per press assoctation.l TIMARU, April 8. The Town Clerk of Geraldine, Lionel F. Grimstone, aged 55, has not been seen since Saturday morning, when he boarded the 8.40 train at Orari, for Ashburton. Fears are entertained for his safety. Before his appointment to Geraldi ine, he was Town Clerk at Motueka, and prior to that he was Town Clerk at Upper Hutt. His wife and three daughters reside in Wellington. PALMERSTON NORTH GIRL. PALMERSTON N., April 9. The police are pursuing inquiries as to the whereabouts of Lucy Harkness, 18, who left her parents’ home in Roy Street, at five o’clock on Saturday morning, and has not since been traced. WATCHMAN DROWNED WELLINGTON, April 8. Regarding the missing nightwatchman, Button, his body has been discovered. It was found near the wharf by a diver, this afternoon. Late last night the engineer found a hose running into the Muritai’s water-tank, which was overflowing. It is thought that Button, hearing the tank overflowing, hurried to the wharf to turn the water off, but that he missed his foothold and fell into the harbour. WHARE FIRE TRAGEDY. t DUNEDIN, April 9. Following up the clue of a battered silver watch, found in the debris of the fire at Henley, on March 6, the police believe that they have established the identity of at least one of the two unknown men who were burnt to death, with James Reid. This watch has been identified by a Dunedin jeweller as one that he repaired. the property of Jethro Hobbs, an elderly man, who worked at various farms on the Taieri, during harvesting. The police now seek information of the whereabouts of Joseph Higgins, 69, a pensioner, believed to have been seen with Hobbs, some days before the tragedy. BOY’S QUEST FOR PARENTS (Recd. April 9,2 p.m.). MELBOURNE, April 8. Gordon Beehre, aged tem of Auckland, who travelled alone on the Wanganella from New Zealand, has been asking for his mother for two days. He expected that his parents would be at the wharf to meet him, but so far, in spite of the assistance of the Travellers’ Aid Society, and the police in two States, they have not been traced.

Gordon’s parents left him in charge of an aunt in New Zealand 18 months ago, when they came to Australia. The only clue of their present whereabouts is a letter addressed “Mrs. Beehre, Melbourne,” which Gordon brought with him. The letter revealed that Mrs. Beehre had been receiving mail at the General Post Office. Inquiries there resulted in the discovery of an unclaimed cablegram from Gordon’s aunt, stating he had left New Zealand.