LOST HUSBAND.
WIFE ON LINER AT SEA.
BOTH BOOKED ON AORANGI.
MAN FAILS TO JOIN STEAMER.
Inquiries are being mado concerning the disappearance of a man who booked passages to Vancouver by the Royal Mail liner Aorangi on Tuesday for his wife and himself. At present his wife is on board the liner, which is duo at Suva to-day, but her husband, who has 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, Mr. Donald Sellers, is a resident of New Plymouth, and he has relatives there. Ho 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 boarding house that night. On Tuesday morning Mr. Sellers and his wife booked their passage by the Aorangi. In the declaration form required to bo filled in by persons leaving the country he described himself as a carpenter and timber-worker, giving his age as 136 years.
Only one ticket was issued to the couple, and this was handed to Mr. Sellers. After they left tho boarding house to join the vessel, which left at 1.30- p.m., their movements aro unknown.
Tho mossago from tho Aorangi stated that Mrs. Sellers had no ticket and that it was believed her husband had been left behind in Auckland. A request was made that inquiries should be made for him. The police have sinco verified tho couple's movements from the time they arrived from New Plymouth to their departure from the boarding house. Mrs. Sellers will probably leave the Aorangi at Suva to-day. Mr. Sellers is described as being about Bft. in height and.of good bnild. 110 has only one eye. lie has dark brown hair and is clean-shaven. At the time of his disappearance ho was dressed in a dark suit and black boots.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20251, 10 May 1929, Page 10
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352LOST HUSBAND. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20251, 10 May 1929, Page 10
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