{"id":413342,"date":"2026-05-05T19:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/413342\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T19:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:32:21","slug":"no-clues-from-missing-southlanders-bank-accounts-phone-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/413342\/","title":{"rendered":"No clues from missing Southlander&#8217;s bank accounts, phone records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is still no sign of a missing Southland dairy farmer, nearly four months after he was last seen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police are continuing to investigate the disappearance of Kevin Belling, 62, who went missing from his Motu Rimu farm in Kapuka on January 9.<\/p>\n<p>He was reported missing on January 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement today, Detective Sergeant John Kean said police had been working with Land Search and Rescue to complete extensive searches of his property.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Other enquiries, including the checking of bank and phone records, have failed to shed light on the possible whereabouts of Kevin,&#8221; Det Sgt Kean said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Concern is growing among police and Kevin&#8217;s family as time passes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue to appeal to anyone who has any information that could help us find him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police urged the community to be vigilant and check their rural properties for any signs of Kevin.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8211; Police &#8211; 105. Reference\u00a0260118\/6964.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8211; Crimestoppers &#8211; 0800 555 111\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is still no sign of a missing Southland dairy farmer, nearly four months after he was last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-413342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413342","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=413342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}