CHILD’S BODY FOUND
Dunedin Mystery Solved DROWNED IN LAGOON • By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin. September 4. The body of the two-year-old child, Shirley Valda Eggers, who has been missing from her home eince August 18, was found this morning in the Tomahawk Lagoon, near her father's house. Nearly 450 men‘as well as forty-three police officers took part in a search when the child was first reported missing. A channel leading from the lagoon to the sea was deepened by gangs of workers so that dragging operations would be made easier, but the dirtiness cf the water made sighting of objects on the bottom impossible. _ ■ The currents in the sea at Tomahawk are notoriously dangerous. In November of last year, a nurse from the Karitane Home went to the beach with another nurse to bathe, and disappeared. Her body has not yet been recovered. DROWNING AT WHANGAREI By Telegraph—Press Association. Whangarei, September 4. A verdict of accidental death by drowning was returned at an inquest concerning the death of Nora Annie Thornton, aged two years. The child’s body was found floating in a stream behind her parents’ house, Maunu Road, Whangarei.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 292, 5 September 1931, Page 8
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