LONG WALK BY BOY OF TWO ON LONELY ROAD TO "FIND DADDY”
KAWAKAWA. July 24. Alan Murphy, aged two. wandered away from Opua on Saturday afternoon and was not found until midnight. Organised by the police, over 60 residents of the district had joined in the search for the missing child. With his father, Mr. A. J. Murphy, schoolmaster at Paihia. Alan was visiting Mr. N. W. Gilling, schoolmaster at Opua. At about 3.30 in the afternoon Mr. Gilling and Mr. Murphy went to the school, leaving Alan with Mr. Gilling’s children. Thinking that his father had left, the child commenced to walk home, but instead of taking the Paihia Road, went by the little-used Oromahoc Road, on which about one vehicle passed a week. The family of Mr. S. H. Jenkins, of Puketona. returning from Opua’ at about 11.30 came upon the child over six miles from Opua, walking, as he thought, for home, to “find my daddy.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23315, 26 July 1950, Page 8
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159LONG WALK BY BOY OF TWO ON LONELY ROAD TO "FIND DADDY” Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23315, 26 July 1950, Page 8
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