FARMER’S BODY FOUND
(P.A.) WHANGAREI, this day. A week ago Mr. Edward Hawken, a well-known farmer of Maungatapere, disappeared. An intense search was made every clay by the settlers and the Home Guard until yesterday, when the foody was found alongside a stone wall on the deceased’s farm. There was a wound in the throat, and a butcher’s knife was alongside. Both feet were tied to a tree. Mr. Hawken had been in ill' health for some time.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20862, 14 August 1942, Page 5
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