MISTAKEN FOR BODY
BOOTS ON SANDPIT POLICE INV ESTIG ATI ON (Por Press Association.' WHAKATANE, last night. The Whakatane police hod fruitless journey to Thornton on Sunday morning, after being informed that a body had been seen in the Rangitaiki River. Two constables obtained a boat and rowed to the supposed body, to find nothing more tragic than a pair of gumboots on a sandspit. One > boot was embedded in the sand, and thc other floated, giving thc appearance of a man’s hand as it moved with the current. >( This is the second “wild goose chase the police have gone on to Thornton. The last “body” turned out to be the carcase of a sheep.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19584, 16 March 1938, Page 13
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115MISTAKEN FOR BODY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19584, 16 March 1938, Page 13
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