WOMAN’S BODY FOUND.

Wairarapa Age, 16 February 1935, Page 5

WOMAN’S BODY FOUND.

DISCOVERY NEAR HASTINGS. POLICE INVESTIGATIONS. HASTINGS, February 15. The discovery of a very much decomposed female body was made this morning in a creek near the junction of the Onepu and Raukawa roads, about twenty miles south of Hastings. The police and a doctor are at present on the spot conducting investigations. It is impossible to say yet whether there are grounds for suspicion of foul play, or whether it is the body of a Maori woman or a pakeha. However, it is believed to be that of a Maori woman. The police state that none of the stations in this district have received any report that a woman is missing.—(PJL) NOT A MAORL BELIEVED TO BE STRANGER TO DISTRICT. HASTINGS, February 15. A medical examination has definitely established that the woman was white and not a Maori, as was at first believed. It is likely that the body had been in the water for some two or three weeks. It was clothed in a red coloured dress of light material, brown silk stockings, two linen petticoats and black shoes with a single cross strap. The dead woman was apparently unmarried, five feet four in height and of stocky build. The police appear to be more or less satisfied that she is a stranger to this district and most certainly did not belong to the neighbourhood in which her body was found. She was evidently thirty years of age. The district in which the discovery was made is remote from all main and even secondary traffic roads.—(P.A.)