BODY AT ROADSIDE
Havelock Man-s Death RIFLE FJOUND NEAFfflY The diecovery by coua^ roa fatoji an unattended motor-lbrry on Ihe Elsthorpe road yesterday led to the finding of the body Of Mr Douglatt Reid Mackay, a married man, aged 37 years, of Havelock North. Alongsid.e the body was a rifle, Yesterday morning the roakmea saw the lorry and later made inquiries establishing its ownership. They informed _ Mr Jack Benson Steel; a brother-in-law of Mr Mackay, who went to the scene to view the lony. He then se#,rched for Mr Mackay uad eventually found his body lying in a patch of scrub juet off the roadsida. Ah inquest wa/s opened before the district coroner, Mr Geo. Ebbett, J.F., late yesterday afternoon. and after the hearing of evidence of i.dentdfica^bu the inquiry was adjourned sine die."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 156, 20 July 1937, Page 4
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