YOUNG GIRL MISSING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18801, 3 September 1935, Page 8

YOUNG GIRL MISSING

ANXIETY OP PARENTS MOTHER RECEIVES LETTER A UTITENTICTTY DOUBTEI) (Tor Press Association.) WANGANUI, this day. Tito police have ! n'i'ii making extensive inij nirii's regarding thi* disnppcarfin<•»• iif l'hyllis Margaret Davi-y, aged i. 1( fi olll Rnet ihi nil July 17, and arc anxious that further publicity bo given die matter. The girl was sent to do move shopping. .She called on a butcher, a fruiterer, a stationer, and at the Post Oflice in secpienco, getting the mail at 12. t() ]i.ni. Since then she has not been seen. On the foliowing day her mother received a letter from her indicating that she intended to go to Pipiriki wins the intention of getting employment. This was posted between B.lf> a.m. and 11 a.in. on July Is. The father is certain that the leitei was not posted by the girl, as he was about the Post Oflice during this period. The description of the missing j, is: Height, oft. 11,in.; weight, Ost. Jib.; Wli<* appears to be about 17 years of age_ and is of stout build. She has a bi-inch bust, brown hair, blue eyes and natural teeth, some being missing at the bark. She has a scar man .he centre of her nose, and a birth mark at the back of her head ttndei die diair. Site has a very high instep, and takes si/e three or four in shoes. She was wearing an old white dress of flower and leaf design, a blue velou, coat, with a fur collar and cuffs, and ?. row of buttons extending each side, starting loin, from the bottom. .Iniita .ion buttonholes are on the sides. Shf was wearing old canvas shoes and Wilt without a hat or stockings. She w;t; carrying a leather, patchwork shopping bag, and a crocodile purse of envelope design. •

Wlie.: in the fruit, shop she appeared o be in good spirits and spoke oi taking the meat home for lunch. Slu and no money tit the time of her disappearance.

Any person knowing of her where ibuiits is requested to comnnmieau with the father, Mr W. \V. Daves Raotihi, or the nearest police station.