Man Disappeared After Old Boys’ Meeting

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31109, 12 July 1966, Page 9

Man Disappeared After Old Boys’ Meeting

(N.Z. Press Attoeiation) WANGANUI, July 11. A 58-year-old Wanganui man has not been seen since he left a Wellington College Old Boys’ meeting on Saturday night He is Stanley Lancaster Rodger, married, with two sons. Mr Rodger is manager of Levin and Company-Mur-ray Roberts. He was last seen between 10.30 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Saturday, when he attended the annual meeting of the Wanganui branch of the old boys’ association. The police found his car, locked and with his overcoat inside, parked where it had been left near the Rutland Hotel. Wl

Inquiries continued throughout Sunday and the search was extended to patrols of the Wanganui river and the beach. “There’s no reason to believe that Mr Rodger may be in the river,” Superintendent J. B. McLean said today. “The patrols are quite normal. “We are afraid, however, that Mr Rodger may have had an accident.”

Travel Grant.—Mr H. Keith, keeper of the Auckland Art Gallery, has been awarded a Carnegie grant to study administrative structure, staff training programmes and extension services of art galleries in the United States and Canada.—(P.A.)