\u201cWeeks went by and nothing,\u201d Steedman said. \u201cWe were starting to lose hope that someone would claim it, until last week when we were visited by Cameron out of the blue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cameron told police his mother, Merle Brett, had lost her locket and was able to provide a detailed description of the piece, including the photographs inside. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat locket has been in our family a long time and belonged to my mother-in-law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe pictures on the inside are my mother-in-law and my father-in-law and it\u2019s a very sentimental piece of jewellery.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brett, who lives in Thames, lost the locket when she was on her way to a 90th birthday in South Auckland, having stopped by the supermarket.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t realise it was gone until I was back home, I was so brassed off.\u201d<\/p>\n
She contacted her daughter, who lives in Nelson, to help keep an eye out on social media on lost and found pages.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn Sunday my daughter called me and said, \u2018mum, I think I\u2019ve found it\u2019. She saw the image from the police Facebook post and thought, \u2018what are the chances two lockets were lost in the same place\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n
Brett said it\u2019s \u201cwonderful\u201d to have her sentimental heirloom back. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just so grateful to the person who found it and handed it in \u2013 thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWeeks went by and nothing,\u201d Steedman said. \u201cWe were starting to lose hope that someone would claim it,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,51,1863,6743,39195,3989,2109,1874,38626,216923,78,216920,111,43,139,69,2738,36262,216921,216922,106382,14907,97,153086,9091,102,112802],"class_list":["post-422672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-back","tag-became","tag-centuryold","tag-effort","tag-family","tag-found","tag-grateful","tag-heirloom","tag-in","tag-locket","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-owner","tag-pukekohe","tag-reunited","tag-sleuthing","tag-subject","tag-successful","tag-supermarket","tag-thames","tag-treasured","tag-with","tag-zealandwide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422672","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=422672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}