QUARRY IS MAORI BOY
HE IS ARMED GISBORNE, 1.40 p.m. The search party; are well armed, for the missing employee is known to be in possession of a shotgun and several cartridges. Tho police are armed with rifles and automatic revolvers, and thesettlers 'brought whatever shotguns and rifles they can muster. The description of the missing employee, is given by the police. He is a Maori boy who has just turned 15, of big build and fairly tall. The- country being searched is most difficult, being rugged bill country covered with bush and scrub calculated to give the quarry an advantage. Several huts are situated in the hack areas, but these are-reported to be under close observation, so that no protection will bo offered from tho weather for the boy. [The bodv of Mrs Lois Rosamond Mill, aged 39. was found under her bed 'at Bexhaven Station, 25 miles from Tokomaru Bay, late on Thursday. Her husband, who found the body, is a brother of the famous All Black, J. Mill.] .
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Evening Star, Issue 25180, 20 May 1944, Page 4
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171QUARRY IS MAORI BOY Evening Star, Issue 25180, 20 May 1944, Page 4
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