CHILD’S BODY FOUND IN HARBOUR
FISHERMAN’S DISCOVERY IN SACK-COVERED BUCKET (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 25. When Mr D. W. T. Evans, a fisherman, of Graham’s beach, was fishing in the Manukau Harbour this morning he saw an object floating in the water, and when he retrieved it he found it was a sack enveloping a bucket into which the body of a month-old Maori boy had been jammed. It is understood that accompanying the body was a piece of paper with a date written on it, a circumstance which may help the police in their inquiries. Mr Evans saw something floating over a sandbank where the water is about four feet deep. He started the engine of his launch and drew alongside the sack, thinking it was empty, but when he hauled it on board he was astonished to find the body of the dead child, which apparently had been in the water for some time. The place where he made the discovery is about five or six miles from Onehunga wharf. The distance was covered in as short a time as possible and as soon as he arrived Mr Evans informed the police.
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Southland Times, Issue 23518, 26 May 1938, Page 4
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195CHILD’S BODY FOUND IN HARBOUR Southland Times, Issue 23518, 26 May 1938, Page 4
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