FOUND AMONG A MILLION

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1018, 8 July 1930, Page 1

FOUND AMONG A MILLION

Father’s Voyage to Sydney to Seek Small Daughter

CHANCE MEETING ENDS QUEST

THE happiest man on the Ulimaroa today was Mr. A. E. Carver, of Wellington. Another happy little person was his daughter Ngaire, aged nine, who is returning to Wellington with her father after an enforced separation.

It is a tragic family story which has ‘ a happy ending—for one of the parties i concerned. ; "X have proved that it is possible to j find someone you want among the mil - I lion people in Sydney,” said Mr. Carte, j as he told his story to a Sun reporter. ; It seems that some months ago Ins daughter Ngaire had been taken away from him by her mother, who went to Sydney with the child. At first the whereabouts of the child was not known. Nobody knew where she had . been taken. At last word came from Sydney that Ngaire was there. Mr. Carver immediately sailed fot Australia, determined to find his daughter and bring her back. “All I knew was that she had been taken to Sydney,” he said. “I immediately got the detectives to work —

almost every one of them. For four, days I tramped the city, keeping an e\o on' the streets near the post office. Every day I returned to my hotel footsore and weary, and without any trace of my daughter. - And then, on the fourth day. I happened to go into Farmer's big store. There I found Xgaire on the fourt-i floor. I immediately took her to my hotel, and we caught the Ulimaroa back to Xew Zealand. “I had expected to be away for six weeks at least, but I was away from Xew Zealand for only IS days.” Xgaire danced about the deck while her father talked, hugging a big doll. Every now and then she would demonstrate her love for “Daddy,” who returned her childish affection as only a fond father can.