CHILD’S BODY FOUND
DUNEDIN MYSTERY SOLVED. I, DROWNED IN LAGOON. DUNEDIN, September 4 The body of the two-year-old child, Shirley Valda Eggers, who lias been missing from her home since August 18, was found this morning in the Tomahawk Lagoon, near her father’s fIT house. Nearly 450 men as well as -fortythree police officers took part in a search when ijhe child was first- reported missing. A channel leading from the lagoon to the sea was deepened by gangs of workers so that dragging operations would be made easier, but the dirtiness of the water made sighting of objects on the bottom impossible. The eurrefits in the sea at Tomahawk are notoriously -dangerous. In November of last year, a nurse irom Karitane Home went to the beach with another nurse to bathe,., and disappeared. Her body has not yet been recovered.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1931, Page 6
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141CHILD’S BODY FOUND Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1931, Page 6
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