Discovery of Woman’s Body on Beach
POLICE INQUIRY PROCEEDING Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, July 21. There have been no further developments in the police inquiry into the discovery of a woman's body on the Taratuhi Beach, two miles north of the Public Works camp at Claverley, from which Mrs. Harriet Jane Patience disappeared on October 4 last year, and the date of the inquest has not yet been fixed, according to Superintendent S. Rawle, of the Christchurch police force, who is at present in Kaikoura, where the body has been taken. A party of detectives from Christchurch, including Senior-Sergeant J. Bickerdike, who was recalled from his annual leave, has gone to Kaikoura. Mr. Bickerdike was in charge of the extensive search for Mrs. Patience last year.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 171, 22 July 1939, Page 5
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