Update: Missing woman found

Far North LandSAR volunteers have set up a communications post at the entrance to Waitangi Forest. PHOTO / PETER DE GRAAF

Update 10pm

The missing Kerikeri woman has been found in farmland near Waitangi Forest. The police Northern Communications Centre described her condition as good.

A team of five police officers from Whangarei and 10 Far North Land Search and Rescue volunteers are packing up a command centre they set up earlier tonight on Kerikeri Inlet Rd.

Friday 9pm

Police are looking for a 65-year-old woman who left her home at 9am today and was last seen riding her bike on Kerikeri Inlet Rd near the entrance to Waitangi Forest.

Five police officers from Whangarei and 10 Far North Land Search and Rescue volunteers started searching the forest about 7pm this evening.

Senior Sergeant Chris Money, of the Northern Communications Centre, said she was 165cm tall with short brown hair, wearing an orange jacket and three-quarter pants, with fluorescent yellow and orange walking shoes.

She was riding a pink mountain bike and was wearing a pink bike helmet.

Mr Money said police were concerned for her safety.

He urged anyone who saw a woman matching the description in the Kerikeri Inlet/Waitangi Forest area to call police.