{"id":289982,"date":"2026-02-18T13:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/289982\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:26:11","slug":"have-you-seen-kevin-police-search-motu-rimu-waterways-for-southland-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/289982\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you seen Kevin? Police search Motu Rimu waterways for Southland man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>18 Feb, 2026 04:43 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Southland Police continue to search for missing man Kevin Belling. Photo \/ NZ Police<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police have expanded their search to Motu Rimu waterways for missing Southland man Kevin Belling. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The 62-year-old was last seen at his Motu Rimu farm on Friday, January 9, and was reported missing on January 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Detective Sergeant John Kean said police Search and Rescue and Land Search and<br \/>\n         Rescue teams had conducted extensive searches, including at the Belling\u2019s Caesar Rd property in Kapuka.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"PjjNclxixstKXPGyV\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSouthland Police are now proceeding to examine effluent ponds and other waterways on the Motu Rimu farm owned by Kevin,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 18 Feb, 2026 04:43 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[160910,84430,2082,305,61092,5158,6501,118563,111,43,139,69,675,160909,1870,7812,15488,165,15871,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-289982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-belling","9":"tag-expanded","10":"tag-for","11":"tag-have","12":"tag-kevin","13":"tag-man","14":"tag-missing","15":"tag-motu","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-police","21":"tag-rimu","22":"tag-search","23":"tag-seen","24":"tag-southland","25":"tag-their","26":"tag-waterways","27":"tag-you"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}