SELLERS IN SYDNEY
NO COMMENT TO MAKE
WIFE RETURNS TO N.Z,
Donald Sellers, sawmiller, late of Now Plymouth, who disappeared so mysteriously from Auckland, leaving his wife tickctless and alone on the Aorangi, has been located definitely.
On May 14 ho stopped ashore from the Aiamiganni at Sydney, having made the trip from Wellington a few days after he was missed in Auckland, Tlie previous day it was announced after an inquiry that Sellers was believed to be on the Waunganui. The W ellington oflice of the Union Company had reported that a man of that name had sailed for Sydney on the previous Friday. When Mr Donald Sellers stepped ashore from the Arannganni at Sydney, the mystery of his disappearance in
Auckland was partially solved. Afr Sellet;; smiled grimly when asked to comment on his disappearance. The only emotion he expressed was that of surprise when he learned that a report of the matter had reached Svdnev.
Airs Sellers arrived in Auckland on Monday, on the Niagara. She boardmi the ship at Suva after disembarking from tin* Aoraugi. She was surprised and distressed at. tiiuling that her husband was not waiting for her in Auckland, as she imagined that he had missed the Aoraugi because of some delay. Informed by her solicitor that a letter from her husband awaited her at New Plymouth, she left for the South immediately.
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Northern Advocate, 22 May 1929, Page 4
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