MISSING MAN SOUGHT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19334, 26 May 1937, Page 14

MISSING MAN SOUGHT

CLOTHING ON BRIDGE NAME IN LEVY BOOK (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Mystery surrounds the discovery, on Sunday morning, of a pile of clothing on a bridge across a stream at Karaka, and the finding of an unemployment levy book, bearing the name of George A- Worley. The police are making inquiries in various parts of New Zealand to determine if Mr. Worley is missing from his homo. So far as it is known, he is not a resident of Auckland. At 8 o'clock on Sunday morning a passer-by noticed the clothes lying in a heap at the .side of the bridge. He found a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a collar and a tie, a painter's -white coat and a levy book. He communicated with a constable at Papakura and a search was at once made in the locality, but no one appeared to be missing.

Inquiries made at the office of the Auckland Painters' Union showed that if the clothing belonged to Mr. Worley, and he is a painter, he is not a member of the Auckland union. One suggestion is that, among other things, the clothing was stolen from Mr. Worley and subsequently thrown near the bridge, although there is evidence that the different articles were arranged in a fairly orderly pile. In any event, the police are endeavouring to find the whereabouts of Mr. Worley.