PART OF SKULL FOUND.
DISCOVERY AT GOOSE BAY. (Special to the “Guardian.”) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Found three weeks ago on the beach, at Goose Bay, some miles north of - Claverley, a part of a human skull has been submitted by the police for expert medical examination in the possibility that it might have some hearing on the fate of Mrs Harriet Jane Patience. Mrs Patience, who was 60 years of age, disappeared on October 4 from the Public Works camp at Claverley, where her husband, Arthur John Patience, was employed, The fragment of skull found was merely the dome of a skull, like the drinking cups which the ancient Maoris made out of the brainpans of their fallen enemies. The find was thought at first to be no more than a relic of Maori days, such as is often picked up along that coast. Examination showed, however, by the amount of animal matter present in the bone, that it was of comparatively recent origin. ... v
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 133, 18 March 1939, Page 2
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165PART OF SKULL FOUND. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 133, 18 March 1939, Page 2
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