ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24150, 8 January 1944, Page 6

ACCIDENTS

GIRL’S DISAPPEARANCE POSSIBILITY OF EARTH FALL “ The Press ” Special Service AUCKLAND, January 7. No trace was found to-day of Colleen Trott, the eight-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs C. E. Trott, of Hawera, who disappeared while playing on Ohawe Beach about 2 p.m. on Wednesday. Search parties continued their efforts to-night without success. The child was playing with her brother, Colin Trott, aged nine, and another companion, Mervyn Gates, also aged nine, near a recent fall of earth below the cliffs about 200 yards from the entrance of Ohawe Beach. The boys returned to their mothers at the beach, but when they were sent back to get the little girl she was nowhere to be seen.

Throughout Wednesday afternoon and last night a large party of holidaymakers had searched the cliff top, the nearby river, the swimming pool, and the beach. On Thursday police, campers, and residents patrolled the foreshore. A small fall of earth late last night suggested that there might have been a similar fall hear the base of the cliff where the child was playing and it was suggested that she might have been buried.

GIRL’S BODY FOUND ON RAILWAY LINE

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, January 7. The decapitated body of Noeline Margaret Phillips, aged 16, who lived with her parents at Cuba street, Petone, was found by the engine driver of a train at 3.5 a.m. to-day on the railway line between the Petone railway station and the Petone railway crossing.

It is believed that she was run over by the previous train, which passed through Fetone about 12.20 a.m.