FARM WORKER MISSING
WAIROA MYSTERY POLICE DRAG WAIAU RIVER (Special to tlie Herald.) WAIROA, this day. The police are inquiring into the disappearance of an Ardkeen farm worker on Thursday. Robert Templeton, aged 30, a single man, engaged on Mr. H. deLautour’s station at Te Ariki, Waikaremoana road, started work as usual, ploughing with a tractor for the motive power. About 9 a.m. the tractor was found unattended in a paddock, with the engine still running. Mr. Templeton failed to appear and later the police in Wairoa were informed. The police found Mr. Templeton’s lint about 100yds. downstream fr.om footmarks leading to the Waiau River, but dragging operations carried out by them proved unsuccessful. The work was hampered by the difficult conditions, and the police to-day had come to the conclusion that tho missing man had been dr.ownod. They had been advised that Mr. Templeton had been strange in his manner for several days. His father is a farmer in the Invercargill district.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 4
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