{"id":460707,"date":"2026-06-04T14:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/460707\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:02:18","slug":"police-appeal-for-sightings-of-missing-boatie-benjamin-barrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/460707\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal for sightings of missing boatie Benjamin Barrett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/9efb65fe-03d6-4e60-850d-8911700e8a2f.png\" alt=\"Brodie Stone\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/author\/brodie-stone\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Brodie Stone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>4 Jun, 2026 02:27 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Benjamin Barrett was last seen in Matauwhi Bay on May 26. Photo \/ NZ Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police and the family of a missing boatie are concerned for his wellbeing after he was last seen more than a week ago near Russell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Benjamin Barrett lives aboard his boat Reremoana in the Far North\u2019s Matauwhi Bay, but he had not been seen since around 11.30pm on May 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">The 58-year-old was last seen in the bay and was believed to have left Reremoana in his dinghy, a police spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">The 2.7m-long white dinghy has a rounded smooth front, fibreglass exterior, and a wooden frame and seats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Police and Barrett\u2019s family have not heard anything despite numerous attempts to contact him, the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Stone Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7 4 Jun, 2026 02:27 AMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,6375,20437,48469,121774,15245,2109,2082,42,685,6501,130,3180,43,1118,675,11763,7812,28652,131,40,38,41,39,686,1297],"class_list":["post-460707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-appeal","tag-barrett","tag-benjamin","tag-boatie","tag-concerned","tag-family","tag-for","tag-headlines","tag-last","tag-missing","tag-more","tag-near","tag-news","tag-of","tag-police","tag-russell","tag-seen","tag-sightings","tag-than","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-week","tag-wellbeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}