No Trace Of Mrs Kievet

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31057, 12 May 1966, Page 1

No Trace Of Mrs Kievet

•N Z Pre*« Association) AUCKLAND. May 11.

The police search for Mrs Anne Elizabeth Kievet, the missing Henderson housewife, ended its seventh day today with the efforts of the searchers concentrated even more intensively on the Gratia stream at Sunnyvale and its immediate area.

About 100 men are now involved in the search. ■ including members of the uniform

; branch. Forestry workers. | Navy divers and detectives. “All staff except those engaged on essential inquiries are being brought to assist the search,” said the search director, Detective-Inspector J. F. Stevenson tonight. “We have not yet eliminated the possibility of a major find in the area.” The search would continue either until a body was found or the police weie completely satisfied there was nothing there, he said. The section around Mrs Kievet’s home in Seymour road. Sunnyvale, had been searched down to soil level.

There was a prospect of the search involving a certain amount of digging. Inspector Stevenson renewed his appeal to members

of the public who used the short cut from Seymour road along the railway line to Station road about 7.50 a.m. to get in touch with the police. Some had already responded to the appeal, he said.

The land search today was concentrated on the eastern bank of the stream, with scrub and undergrowth . cut and then shifted back from the search area. However, there were no finds of significance.

The police have established that Mrs Kievet’s husband, from whom she is legally separated, is in Australia and has been out of the country since April 20. Mrs Kievet was last reported seen on the morning of May 2.