WOMAN’S BODY FOUND

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 122, 16 February 1935, Page 8

WOMAN’S BODY FOUND

In Remote District Near Hastings IDENTITY MYSTERY By Telegraph—Press Association. Hastings, February 15. The discovery of a very much decomposed female body was made this morning in a creek near the junction of the Onepu and Raukawa roads, about twenty miles south of Hastings. Aletlical examination has definitely established that the woman is white, not Maori, as at first believed likely. The body had been in the water for some two or three weeks, and was clothed in a red-coloured dress of light material, brown silk stockings, two linen petticoats, and black shoes with a single cross strap. The dead woman was apparently unmarried, five feet four inches in height, and of stock build. The police .appear more or less satisfied she was a stranger to this district and most certainly did not belong to the neighbourhood in which her body was found. She was evidently 30 years of age. The district in which the discovery was made is remote from all main and even secondary traffic roads.