A 16-year-old girl missing from Paihia for more than a week has ben found unharmed in Auckland.
Toia Walker was last seen at Paihia at 1.30am on Saturday, November 17. Her disappearance greatly worried her family because it was so out of character. It was also unlike her not to tell her employers she would not be coming to work.
Police had been looking for her and her extended family had put word out of her disappearance far and wide.
Senior Sergeant Peter Robinson, of Kerikeri police, said the 16-year-old had been found on Sunday while hitch-hiking in Auckland.
She was in the company of a 19-year-old who had been missing since the previous Friday, understood to be Gordon Herbert of Ohaeawai.