MISSING NEW ZEALAND GIRL

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 2 September 1932, Page 5

MISSING NEW ZEALAND GIRL

LEFT HOME AT DUNEDIN. LIKENESS SEEN AT SYDNEY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Sept. 1. Olive Halligan, the missing New Zealand girl who was mentioned in a cable from Sydney yesterday, left her father’s home, Dunedin, in December, 1928, since when her mother, while hearing of her, has not traced her whereabouts. Recently the mother asked a Sydney inquiry agency to take the matter up, and the cablegram is apparently the result of this agency circulating Miss Halligan’.s photograph to Sydney newspapers. The parents have now communicated with a Sydney resident, formerly of Dunedin, who knew the missing woman all her life, asking him to ascertain whether Miss Bentley and Miss Halligan are identical.

The cable from Sydney stated: About 250 people called upon Miss Bentley, an employee of the Commonwealth Bank, to tell her that she was Olive Halligan, a missing New Zealand girl whose photograph was published 1 in a Sydney newspaper. The resemblance is extraordinary. Miss Bentley corresponds to the photograph and the description even to wearing thin gold gipsy ear-rings. Like the missing girl, she ‘too is a New Zealander, but she has been in Sydney five years. Miss Bentley originally came from Wellington. Her parents are both dead.