Boy missing in Tolaga Bay, Gisborne: Desperate search for Axle, 4, overnight 4 May, 2021 09:55 PM 4 minutes to read Missing four-year-old Axel has been found safe and well after a 21-hour ordeal. Video / Shanae Jones / UAWA Live Missing four-year-old Axel has been found safe and well after a 21-hour ordeal. Video / Shanae Jones / UAWA Live NZ Herald The parents of missing boy Axel are "beside themselves" as the Tolaga Bay community rallies to search for the 4-year-old. Police and volunteers are desperately scouring the area for the preschooler, who has been missing for more than 20 hours. The urgent search for Axle, who was last seen at his rural Mangatuna home near Tolaga Bay around lunchtime yesterday, continued before first light today.