MAN’S LONELY DEATH
Body Found by Friend LAST SEEN IN NOVEMBER By Telegraph—-Press Association. Invercargill, April 9. The body of an elderly man named James D. Moir, who bad apparently been dead for several months, was found to-day in a lonely hut on the Awarua Plains. Moir was a labourer and occupier of 200 acres of peat swamp land, which be visited only occasionally. His absence occasioned no surprise, lie was last seen at Awarua at the beginning of November, when he informed friends that lie had secured a good position. The discovery of the body was made by a friend who called to see if he had raturned for the holidays. The body was partly dressed, and was in n Reeling position before a couch.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 166, 10 April 1931, Page 11
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126MAN’S LONELY DEATH Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 166, 10 April 1931, Page 11
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