Police fear for missing Aussie tourist

Police are concerned for the safety of an Australian tourist who has not been seen since arriving in the Canterbury late last month.

David Robert Hamnett, aged 46, came to the Christchurch to find work and was given a car but had not been seen since Friday, police said.

He is described as being European, approximately 186cm tall, of medium build, with dark to greying coloured hair, a high forehead and sporting a moustache.

He was driving a white coloured Nissan Sunny with the registration FEG687 and was thought to still to be in the Christchurch area.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts was asked to contact police.

- NZPA