Child’s body found

Press, 8 March 1989, Page 3

Child’s body found

PA Whanngarei A three-year-old girl missing since Monday from a farm on the rugged Purerua Peninsula in the Bay of Islands, was found dead yesterday morning, the police have said. She was Tara Eileen Campbell Her body was discovered floating in Poukoura Inlet by a helicopter crew at 8.30 a.m. She is believed to have fallen in the water and drowned on Monday. The child’s body was found on the opposite side of the inlet from where she went missing at 4 p.m. As a rescue helicopter was making the recovery, offers of help from the public were flooding into the Bay of Islands police station. The search, which began at 4 p.m. on Monday and continued throughout the night, was the most intensive in the history of the Kerikeri district, the police said. It was believed Tara wandered away from the family home at the end of Purerua Road, near Kauri Point, 25km from Kerikeri. Superintendent Barry of Kaikohe, the Gardam search controller said it was sad the search had ended the way it did.