Skeleton in Garden

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 March 1947, Page 3

Skeleton in Garden

A human skeleton was unearthed in Wanganui East recently, but the police are not perturbed. There is every indication that the skeleton has been in a domestic garden in Duncan street, where it was found, rather longer than there had been a settlement named Wanganui. A resident was seeking a new place to bury rubbish, and dug up a section of his garden path. He had not gone very deep when he was disturbed to find human bones, forming an almost complete skeleton. Though the bones were in a very good state of preservation, having been in a dry pumice formation, they were very discoloured, and obviously had been there longer than any police records have existed;