Police are seeking sightings of a Slovakian tourist who was last seen hitch-hiking near Motueka, near Nelson, and should have been gone only for a couple of hours.
Martina Direrova, 23, left the home she was staying at on Motueka Valley Highway, near Ngatamoti, about 2pm on Saturday afternoon.
Constable Owen Thawley, of Motueka police, told the Herald last night Miss Direrova didn't usually hitch-hike because the Slovakians she stayed with had a car.
She had intended to go into town to visit shops and said nothing about staying away any longer, so her friends raised the alarm yesterday.
Mr Thawley said she had been in New Zealand since November and initially spent time in Christchurch.
