MISSING NURSE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5401, 18 March 1929, Page 2

MISSING NURSE.

WHEREABOUTS STILL UNKNOWN

ARTHUR’S PASS MYSTERY. Mystery still surrounds tire disappearance of the nurse. Dorothy Hamilton Mc'Haffie, who left Christchurch by the West, Coast express on Saturday, February .16, for Kumara, and has so far failed to arrive at her destination. It has now beqn definitely established that the; missing nurse arrived at Arthur’s Pass, and' gelt off the train there. She had a good ileal of luggage with her, two wooden boxes, two suitcases, and two. smaller parcels, which she stored! at: the Arthur’s Pas,s station in the left luggage department immediately after the. departure of. the train at 1,55 P.m. 'dill last evening the nurse had 1 not appeared, nor had her luggage been claimed.

The drivers of the uerviee cars affirm that nobckly answering Miss McHaffie’s description was carried between Arthur’s Pass and Hokitika by the cars either bn the day of the dis,appearajice or since.

Miss McHaffie has, of coui se, not arrived at. the home of her friends, named Simpson, in Kumara. There is nothing definite to give any inkling of. her. whereabouts. A .mysterious feature etf the case is that three weeks a.go two letters addressed to .Miss McHaffie at the Arthur’s Pass Hotel disappeared from the letter rack in the hostel shortly after they hafli been put there. It is not known who. took the letters. Residents in the district are sure that Miss McHaffie; is not there, so the claiming of the letters deepens the mystery of. the. nurse’s disappearance. A visit of inquiry tel every horse in Arthur’s Pass by Constable W. A. Caiwell, of Otira, on t'he evening of February 22 intensified the interest of the settlement in the nurse’s fate. ■Since she deposited her luggage at thq Arthur’s Pass station on Saturday, February 16, shortly after 1.55 p.m., there has been no trace of the missing woman. Her luggage is still in the Arthur’s Pass railway station unclaimed 1 . The service car drivers have not carried anybody answering to her description or name; between Arthur’s Pass a,nd Hokitika on the Saturday in question or since. Constable Calwell has 'made exhaustive inquiries in the district and also searched the Gorge road. He has traversed the Bealey RiVCjr from White’s Bridge to well below Arthur’s. Pass without seeing any trace 'of Miss McHaffie. Inquiries have also, been made in the Cass district and from the roadmen between Arthur’s Pass and the Bealey Hotel, but no trace has been speii of anybody answering to the. description of. the missing nurse.