WOMAN'S BODY WASHED ASHORE

Evening Star, Issue 23324, 21 July 1939, Page 16

WOMAN'S BODY WASHED ASHORE

echo of claverley mystery ? [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, July 20. The partly decomposed body of a woman was found washed up on the beach at Taratulii, about two miles north of Claverley, at 1.30 this afternoon. The discovery was made by Mr N. M ‘Lean, a Public Works bulldozer driver. The body, which was found at high water mark, had no hair and the feet were missing. The features are said to be clearly" recognisable. The woman appeared to bo middle-aged. It is known that the body was washed up overnight with the tide, since Public Works employees working on the Main Trunk line which runs beside the road had nob seen it yesterday. The police at Kaikoura have been informed and are investigating the possibility of the body being that of Mrs Patience, who has been missing from her homo at Claverley since October 4. An extensive search has already been made by a party of police officers, a huge area of country being thoroughly combed and a big section of beach dug over by detectives.