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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 22

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MISSING WOMAN. INTENSIVE POLICE SEARCH. THE CLAVERLT MYSTERY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, Friday. There is 110 indication at Claverly, the partially abandoned Public Works camp on the South Main Trunk railway south of Kaikoura, of the search for Mrs. Harriet .lane Patience, who lias been iiii«ving .since early in October, being abandoned. Twenty police are still engaged in the search for the woman, who was la<st seen alive on Octobcr 4, and it is obvious that the authorities believe that she is dead. From observations at the scene of the police operation*, it seems more than likely 'hat if the mussing woman is not soon found the strength "f the police party at I'lavorlv will be increased. Owing to the methodical system adopted there is no doubt that if the body is within the area of tire search it will be found, but of course there are a number of other possibilities to be considered in connection with the vfonianV disappearance. For more than a month a police party from Christchurch has been combing a wide extent of country, turning over poil and excavating fillings from huge rock cuttings built for the railway track. So far the only bodies uncovered are sheep <*aleases. A patrol of the «ea coast from the mouth of the Conway River to Kaikoura, a. distance of approximately 30 miles, k being carried out. a daily patrol being worked in three sections, and the advice of the Marine Department on questions of tides and currents has been enlisted. The nature of the coast, however, presents unusual difficulties for patrol work, for a great deal of it i* rocky and not easily accessible. Judging from the painstaking and persistent nature of the operations already carried out and what it is proposed to do. it is apparent that the police are optimistic that their endeavours will be rewarded.