A seven-year-old Hamilton boy who went missing after going to visit his friends has been found safe, his mother says.
His mother on Thursday morning told RNZ he had been returned to his family by a teacher.
Police had earlier issued an 'amber alert' after the boy left his home on Anderson Road in Deanwell at 4pm,
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