{"id":464536,"date":"2026-06-06T21:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464536\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T21:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:56:12","slug":"appeal-for-sightings-of-missing-81-year-old-christchurch-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464536\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal for sightings of missing 81-year-old Christchurch woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for the public&#8217;s help to find an 81-year-old Christchurch woman who has been missing since yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Valerie Hargrave left her Woolston home at around 10.30am on Saturday and had not returned, police said in a statement that evening.<\/p>\n<p>She had been wearing a pink cardigan and is described as around 167cm tall and of small build. Hargrave walks with a shuffle but is reasonably mobile, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they and Hargrave&#8217;s family were very concerned for her wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her family and police are very concerned about her wellbeing and are urgently seeking any information which will help us find her,&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who spots Hargrave is asked to call 111 immediately. <\/p>\n<p>People with non-urgent information on her whereabouts can call police on 105, quoting reference number P066620434.\ue056\ue03b\ue0c1\ue0fb\ue0f9\ue0ce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are appealing for the public&#8217;s help to find an 81-year-old Christchurch woman who has been missing since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-464536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christchurch-canterbury","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\/464536","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=464536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}