MAN DISAPPEARS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16948, 11 May 1929, Page 5

MAN DISAPPEARS

WIPE ABOARD AORANGI HUSBAND MISSED BOAT (Special to th© Herald.) AUCKLAND, this clay. Inquiries are being made 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 arrived at Suva yesterday, tut her husband, who has the ticket, is presumed still to be in Auckland. A wireless message from the Aorangi to the Union Steamship Co. the day after she left Auckland stated that the husband had missed the boat. However, he has not leported the occurrence to the. company nor have the police been able to locate him.

The missing man, Donald Sellers, is a resident of New Plymouth, and ho has relatives there. He arrived in Auckland with his wife on Monday, with the intention of sailing for Vancouver by the Aoiangi the following clay. They stayed at a city boarding-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 by persons leaving the country, ho 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 'boardinghouse to join the Vessel, which left at 1.30 p.m.| their movements are miknown.

The message from the Aorangi stated that Mrs. Sellers had no ticket, and that it was believed that her husband had been left behind in Auckland. A request was made that inquiries should be made for him. The police have since verified the couple's movements from the time they arrived from New Plymouth to their departure from the 'boarding house.