Wellington  - As the search for a missing 2-year-old New Zealand girl moved into its sixth day Saturday, police, who are convinced that she was abducted, appealed to the kidnapper to leave her at a hospital.

Police boosted the squad looking for Aisling Symes, who was last seen Monday afternoon, to 60 and continued house-to-house inquiries in suburban Henderson, 16 kilometres from central Auckland.

The girl disappeared as her parents Alan and Angela Symes worked on her dead grandparents' home which they are selling.

Her mother told a news conference Friday she disappeared in a moment when she was distracted by a troublesome washing machine. "I just can't believe that she moved so quickly," she said.

Angela Symes appealed to her abductor, "She's not a doll. She's somebody who loves her parents, her family, her sister, her pets. She belongs with us. She needs to be back with us."

Police, who found no trace of the girl in an extensive search of the neighbourhood, are convinced that she was abducted but have no clues, apart from a mystery Asian woman walking a dog who two witnesses said they saw talking to the girl.

Chinese-born member of parliament Pansy Wong told Radio New Zealand that about 20 people who spoke Punjabi, Korean, Mandarin or Cantonese had knocked on doors in eight local streets without obtaining any information about the woman.

Ethnic Asian radio stations in Auckland - which has New Zealand's biggest population of Asians - were continuing to broadcast appeals, she said. dpa