No Trace of Missing Admiral

Chronicle (Levin), 12 October 1949, Page 5

No Trace of Missing Admiral

AUCKLAND, Oct, 10. Five weeks ago today, Rear-Adiniral (Ej Harry Smalley Briggs, O.B.E., R.N., (retired), disappeared from his home at Takapuna, and he has not been seen or heard of since. A thorough search by police and civilians over a wide area in the Glenfield district has been unsuccessful, and organised searehing has been abandoned.

At 9 o 'clock on the morning of September 5, Read-Admiral Briggs left on his usual Monday morning drive I to a Glenfield farm to obtain eggs. It was also his custo'm on these oocasions to leave his car and take a walk. His car, with the ignition key missing and the doors locked, was found at the side of the road at the intersection of the Albany-Birkenhead main highway with Sunset Road and Glendhu Road, about three-quarters of a mile from the farmliouse which he had set out to visit. Eear-Admiral Briggs was last seen by a woman li ving in a house opposite to where his car was found. . She saw him alight from his car and lock the d. ors at 10.30. He did not visit the fannliou.se, and he also failed to keep a doetor's appointnient he had made for the same morning. . Aged 72, Rear-Admiral Briggs had been in New Zealand for about two years. He was formerly an honorary A.D.C. to the King. He was a member of the Northern Club.