23 Jul 2009

Police seek missing 79-year-old woman

7:00 pm on 23 July 2009

An elderly woman is missing from a rest home near Helensville after taking a bus into Auckland.

Jeanette Alder, 79, left the Parakai rest home on Wednesday morning and is believed to have caught a Ritchies bus into the city.

She is descibed as about 1.6 metres tall, European and of solid build and was wearing a red jacket with blue pants.

Police urgently want to find her or anyone who has seen Ms Alder.