SEARCH FOR LOST CHILD
BIG PARTY IN OTAGO
DROWNING TRAGEDY FEARED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Aug. 24.
Four hundred and fifty men and boys, headed by 43 police, unsuccessfully searched the Tomahawk district yesterday for Valda Shirley Eggers, aged two years, who lias been missing from her parents’ home since Tuesday afternoon. The police have been searching throughout the week and dragged a large lagoon, while on Friday a resident, T. Pereira, and a constable courageously dived into a dangerous surf and searched caves under Lawyer’s Head. The authorities arc now convinced that the child fell into the lagoon from a bridge and the body is still there or has been swept out to’sea. To-morrow Flying Officer Olson will fly over the lagoon. This method of observation is adopted on Sydney beaches to detect sharks.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 25 August 1931, Page 5
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135SEARCH FOR LOST CHILD Hawera Star, Volume LI, 25 August 1931, Page 5
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