FURTHER CLUES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1938, Page 6

FURTHER CLUES

SEARCH FOR MISSING MAN AT TAHAROA CLOTHING FOUND IN SAND DUNES. SENT TO THE AUTHORITIES FOR EXAMINATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 4. Certain articles which have been unearthed during the past week by the search party at Taharoa, a remote settlement near Kawhia, led to the belief that they belonged to Dalu Desai, the 42-year-old Indian store assistant, who has been missing from the settlement since May 7. It is understood that parts of his clothing, among other things, were found buried in different parts of sand dunes about a mile or more from where he lived, and that they have been sent to. the authorities for examination. These discoveries have stimulated the efforts of the police officers stationed at the Lakeside and elsewhere in the district, and it is said that within the past few days their search has been intensified in the belief that almost any day now the three months of combing sand dunes and dragging Lake Taharoa will be crowned with success.

As yet the police have not definitely established that the articles found buried in the dunes belonged to Dalu, but, according to information given them, they are sanguine of their discoveries leading them to the ultimate recovery of Dalu’s body. Only one of the two motor-boats which have been used to drag the lake is now in commission. In view of what has been found and because the dragging of the lake proved unproductive, it was not deemed necessary to have both boats working, and the authorities are now directing their attention elsewhere.