SEARCH FOR LOST OHO
DROWNING TRAGEDY; FEARED.
AEROPLANE TO BE EMPLOYED
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Dunedin, Aug. 24,
Four hundred and fifty men and boys, neaded •by 43 police, unsuccessfully searched the Tomahawk district yesterday for Valda Shirley Eggers, aged two years, who has 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 eurf and searched the caves under Lawyer’s Head. The authorities are now convinced that the child fell into the lagoon from a bridge and the body is still there or lias been swept out to sea. To-morrow Flying Officer Olson will fly over the lagoon. This method ' observation* is adopted on Sydney ’■beaphes to detect sharks.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1931, Page 5
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