REMAINS EXHUMED
PIHA FIRE TRAGEDY SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS INVESTIGATIONS OF POLICE (By Telegrapn.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Wednesday Police Investigations covering the Piha fire tragedy of February 12, have continued with unabated vigour. It will be recalled that three days after the tragedy it was learned that the victim, Mr Gordon Robert McKay, aged 45* a hide and skin merchant, of Sydney, was insured for sums totalling £50,000. It Is understood that the preliminary Investigations by the police have led them to examine various possibilities Including, one, that no one was burnt to death In the fire or, alternatively, that the remains found were not those of Mr McKay. The police, last week, obtained permission to exhume the remains, which had been interred at the Waikumete cemetery. At tho time the news was withheld by the daily newspapers at the request of the police.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19390301.2.84
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20743, 1 March 1939, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
141REMAINS EXHUMED Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20743, 1 March 1939, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waikato Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in