CHILD’S BODY IN SACK

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 204, 26 May 1938, Page 13

CHILD’S BODY IN SACK

Fisherman’s Discovery In Manukau Harbour

By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, May 25.

When Mr. 13. W. T. Evans, fisherman, Graham’s Beach, was fishing in Manukau Harbour this morning, he saw an object floating in the water, and when he had retrieved it he found it was a sack enveloping a bucket into which, the body of a month-old Maori boy child had been jammed. It is understood that accompanying the body was a piece of paper with a date written on it, a circumstance which may help the police in their inquiries. Mr. Evans saw something floating over a sandbank where the water is about four feet deep. He started the engine of his launch and drew alongside the sack, thinking it. was empty, but when he hauled it on board he was astonished to find the body of the dead child, which apparently had been in the water for some time. The spot where he made his discovery is about five or six miles from Onehunga wharf. The distance was covered in ns short, a time as possible, and as soon as he arrived Mr. Evans informed the police of his discovery.