Land SAR Northland Team Leader Grant Brown and others from NLSAR, Far North Land SAR and Police SAR search for a missing 58-year-old Kukama Waa in bush at Pipiwai. Photo / Michael Cunningham
Northland Police and Search and Rescue volunteers are searching a bush area near Whangārei as concern grows for a man who has been missing since Wednesday morning.
Personnel were searching near Pipiwai on Thursday in efforts to locate Kukama Waa.
Waa, aged 58, was reported missing to police on
Wednesday night, but was last seen in the bush area near Pipiwai that morning.
Waa is hearing impaired and also has physical and mental impairments. He is described as Māori, about 5ft 8 (1.72m) tall, of large build, is bald and recently lost one of his arms.
He was last seen wearing blue-coloured tracksuit pants and a red shirt.
