By RNZ
Police are intensifying the search for a 65-year-old woman who failed to board a flight back to Taupō from Dunedin last Saturday.
Police inquiries indicate Penelope may have travelled to the Otago Peninsula area, and searches are under way.
A CCTV image has also been released of her just before she arrived in the Sandfly Bay area on Saturday.
She can be seen wearing a dark coloured hat, green top, tan pants and Jandals.
Police and her family are concerned for her wellbeing.
Anyone who has any information about her whereabouts is being asked to get in touch by calling 105, using reference number 250304/9428.
Officers especially want to hear from people who were in the Sandfly Bay area over the weekend.
- RNZ
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The whānau was on Oranga Tamariki's radar long before the child went missing.