Mystery Of Wandering Boy
WHAKATANE, Sept. 30. Mystery surrounds a 14-year-old schoolboy found by the police wandering along the railway line near Taneatua yesterday. Dressed in navy shorts, a shirt, black shoes and socks, he gave the name of Harry Kelvin Greer Miller, but the police have received no eomplaints nor have they traced the relations of the boy. Carrying blankets in a schoolbag he said he had just left the Auckland hospital and come to live with his father who is a stranger to the distriet two miles north of Edgecumbe. The father
had taken him to the Whakatane West railway station, dropped him and hold him to walk to Taneatua six miles away. The police waited at the town but nobody turned up for the boy. He was subsequently examined by a doctor and admitted to the Whakatane distriet hospital. His description is 5ft 4in, Weli built, blue eyes, fair straight hair and fair complexion. A
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 October 1949, Page 3
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