SEARCH FOR LOST CHILD.
HUNDREDS JOIN EFFORTS. DRAGGING OF LARGE LAGOON. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, Monday. Four hundred and fifty men and boys, headed by 43 police, unsuccessfully searched the Tomahawk district yester-* day for Valda Shirley Eggers, aged two years, who has been missing from her parents' home since Tuesday afternoon.
The police had been searching through* out the week and dragging a large lagoon and on Friday a resident, Mr. T. Pereira, and a constable courageously dived into the dangerous surf and searched the caves under Lawyer's Head.
The authorities are flow convinced that the child fell into the -lagoon from a bridge and that the body is still there, or it has been swept 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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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20960, 25 August 1931, Page 8
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140SEARCH FOR LOST CHILD. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20960, 25 August 1931, Page 8
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