MISSING FAMILY
LOCATED IN ROTORUA DISTRICT. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) ROTORUA, July 1. When he read in yesterday’s paper that a Taranaki family had been missing, a guard on the Rotorua-Frankton passenger train recognised the description given as that of a party of people he had put off the train the previous Thursday and notified the Rotorua police of his belief, with the result that the family was located and identified. They are: Mr Arthur Cecil Malcolm, Riverlea, Taranaki; his wife, Mrs Olive Gray Malcolm; and three children, Howard, aged 11; Graham, aged nine, and Margaret, aged five. Constable J. Riddle, of the Rotorua police, today went to Tarukenga and located the family living in a disused shack a few hundred yards from the railway station. They were brought to the RotorUa police station, whei e Mr Malcolm admitted his identity. It was stated that Mr Malcolm was run down in health through working hard on his farm and left for a fewmonths’ holiday, taking the fam y with him. He just neglected to notify anvone of his whereabouts and was not cognisant of the inquiries being made for the family. They letumed to Tarukenga in the afternoon.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 July 1941, Page 4
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