A WOMAN'S DEATH.
POST-MORTEM ORDERED. SS3 i3£OCI4.TiOi- TXI.ECit4.SI. , AUCKLAND, November .15. By order of the Coroner, Mr F. K. Hunt, a post-mortem examination is to be made of the body of Mrs Linda Rubina Page, aged 35, who was found dead in a waterhole at Silverdale, yestorday afternoon. This action followed the inquest which was opened this morning and adjourned sine die after evidence of identification had been given. Mrs Page lived about two miles on the Wade Heads side of Silverdale, and it was her custom to go into the township to buy her provisions. On her way she had to walk c-'or a plank which crossed a tidal cree.V. According to evidence given at the inquest, Edward Cecil Charles Hart, went to meet Mrs Page and found her dead in the waterhole, which was Sft deep. Hart explained to the Coroner that Mrs Page was divorced three months ago. On arriving at the creek he had noticed parcels on the banlc. They appeared to have been placed on the ground. "I could not see any signs of a struggle." he added, "but there was a mark down the bank from the path to the waterhole. Her hat was bv the parcels. There was a bruise on hor forehead."
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20087, 17 November 1930, Page 4
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