Police are worried about a Motueka man who goes by the name "Friar" who has not been heard from for four days.
Shaun Matheson, 32, was last seen at 12.30am on February 2 on the corner of King Edward and High Streets in the small town near Nelson.
Police today appealedfor any sightings of Matheson, who is described as 185cm tall, with a "distinctive fullginger beard and dreadlocked hair to his waist".
He was traveling to Christchurch in the early hours of last Thursday and may have been in the Springs Junction area, near Lewis Pass, that same day.
