COUNTRY BAKER MISSING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22356, 29 February 1936, Page 15

COUNTRY BAKER MISSING

SEARCH WITHOUT RESULT POSSIBLE LOSS OF MEMORY Exhaustive search has been made without success in the Hauraki Plains district for Mr. W. A. Montgomery, baker, of Ngatea, who left the township in his delivery van on the morning of February 3 and has been missing ever since. An aeroplane from Auckland searched the whole of the surrounding district and the Piako River was dragged, but no trace of him could be found. It is thought possible that Mr. Montgomery suffered loss of memory and that he may be wandering about the countryside.

Mr. Montgomery set out on his usual deliver** round nt 8..50 a.m. Two and a-half hours later his van was found outside the house of the last customer whom he had served, but clici'f wan no sign of the driver, lho van was obout 50 yards from the bank of tbe Piako River, which was then in flood, and it was first thought that he had fallen ill and been drowned. At the time of his disappearance Mr. Montgomery was wearing khaki trousers, ft brown striped shirt, a Panama lmt with a Mack baud, and black boots.