MAN DISAPPEARS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1929, Page 4

MAN DISAPPEARS

I ROOKED P \°SAGE BY AO Rajs Gl. AN AUCKLAND MYSTERY. AUCKLAND, May &.• Enquiries are being made concerning the disappearance of a man who booked passages to Vancouver by the Royal Mail liner Aorangi on Monday for bis wife and himself. At present his wife'is on board the. liner, which is due at Suva to-day, but her husband, who t !ia.s the ticket, is presumed still to be in Auckland. A wireless message .from the Aorangi to the Union Steam Ship Company the day after she left Auckland stated that the husband missed the boat. However, he has not reported the occurrence to the company, nor have the police been able to locate him. The missing man, McDonald ■. Sellers ,is a resident of New Plymouth, and lie has relatives there. He arrived in Auckland with his wife on Monday with the intention of sailing for Vancouver by the Aorangi the following day. They stayed at a city hoarding-house, that night. On Tuesday morning Sellers and his wife booked their passage by the Aorangi. In the declaration form required to be filled in hv persons leaving the country j lie described himself as a carpenter and timber-worker, giving his age as 36 years. Only one ticket was issued to the couple, and this was handed to Sellers. After they left ; the hoarding-house to join the vessel, which left at 1.30 p.m., their movements were unknown. The message from the Aorangi stated that Mrs Sellers had no ticket,, and that it was believed her husband had been left behind in Auckland. Request was made that enquiries should be made for him. The police have since verified the couple’s movements from they time they arrived from New Plymouth to their departure from the hoarding-house. Mrs Sellers will probably leave the Aorangi at Suva to-dav.