BODY FOUND AT CLAVERLY
INQUEST NOT YET FIXED There are no further developments in the police inquiry into the discovery of the body of a woman, partly decomposed, which was found on the Taratuhi Beach, two miles north of the Public Works Camp at Claverly, where Mrs Harriet Jane Patience disappeared last year. The date of an inquest has not yet been fixed according to Superintendent S. Rawle, of the Christchurch Police Force, who is at present in Kaikoura, where the body has been taken. A party of detectives from Christchurch, including Senior-Sergeant J. Bickerdike, who was recalled from annual leave, has gone to Kaikoura. Senior-Sergeant Bickerdike # was in charge of the extensive search for Mrs Patience last year.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22769, 22 July 1939, Page 16
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