{"id":399467,"date":"2026-04-27T06:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/399467\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T06:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:17:10","slug":"body-found-in-kaipara-harbour-believed-to-be-missing-man-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/399467\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in Kaipara harbour believed to be missing man, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4KAEMAL_RNZD0270_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"RNZ\/Reece Baker\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPolice said they would like to thank all those who assisted with the search for the man.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER\n<\/p>\n<p>Police believe they have found the body of a man who went missing from a North Auckland beach earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>A person was found dead at about 2.45pm on Sunday near the wharf at Kaipara Harbour on Shelly Beach Road, police said.<\/p>\n<p>While formal identification was yet to be carried out, police said they believed it was the man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/community\/592849\/search-for-man-missing-from-north-auckland-beach-continues\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">went missing<\/a> after entering the water on 19 April.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts are with the man&#8217;s family and loved ones at this difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police said they would like to thank all those who assisted with the search for the man.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said they would like to thank all those who assisted with the search for the man. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-399467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399467","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=399467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}