REPORT DISCOUNTED
DISCOVERY OF SKELETON NOT MISSING WOMAN (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 10. The suggestion that the human skeleton discovered in a sand dune on the West Coast about five miles north of Helensville on Sunday might be the remains of Mrs. Mary Eileen Turner, who vanished mysteriously the day after her wedding on July 11, 1942, was officially discounted by the police last night.
Accompanied by two waterside workers who found the bones, Senior Detective P. Kearney, of the Auckland Central police, visited the scene yester-
day and was able from information at his disposal to establish that they were not those of the missing woman. Whether the skeleton is that of a man or a woman will not be ascertained until it has been examined by medical experts It was pointed out by the police that the locality •in which the discovet was made was once used by Maoris a. a burial ground. Owing to ibe s 0 nature of the sand dunes, bones were often unearthed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22200, 10 December 1946, Page 6
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