A psychic from Palmerston North has helped searchers find the belongings of a missing elderly man on the banks of the Manawatu River.
James Alexander, 73, disappeared from his rest home in Palmerston North a week ago, prompting an extensive police search.
Search co-ordinator Bill Nicholson says an email from the woman on Friday had enough detail about the missing man for her to be taken seriously.
He says she directed police to a part of a river which they had not considered searching.
The missing man suffers from Alzheimer's disease and it is thought he walked the three or four kilometres from the rest home to the river.
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