NSW: Missing man found in grounds of colliery

AAP General News (Australia)
12-27-1998
NSW: Missing man found in grounds of colliery

SYDNEY, Dec 27 AAP - An elderly man missing after wandering away from a Christmas party on
the New South Wales Central Coast was found in the grounds of a colliery, police said.

Senior Constable Michael Vanhese of Toronto police said a worker found 75-year-old Fredrick
Jarvis slightly dehydrated but otherwise safe and well at the Newstand Colliery in Fassifern
just after 9am today.

The colliery was not far from the reserve on the shores of Lake Macquarie where Mr Jarvis
was last seen leaving the party on Christmas Day.

Snr Cons Vanhese said Mr Jarvis suffered from dementia and had gone missing a number of
times before.

Police had just called off a search when Mr Jarvis was found by the worker.

Mr Jarvis was taken to hospital for observation, Snr Cons Vanhese said.

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