{"id":467967,"date":"2026-06-09T06:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/467967\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T06:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:35:09","slug":"81-year-old-valerie-hargrave-found-safe-after-major-search-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/467967\/","title":{"rendered":"81-year-old Valerie Hargrave found safe after major search effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Police thanked everyone who assisted with the search over recent days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Hargrave went missing from Woolston on Thursday evening, prompting a community-wide effort to find her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Earlier today, Lifecare Ambulance Service, a commercial ambulance provider, led a community search for Hargrave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Lifecare Ambulance Service director Shane Casbolt said everybody out searching today was \u201choping for the best possible outcome\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe more eyes, ears, people looking for her, it could be a lot better outcome if we can find her and get her back to her family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Locals helped search the streets surrounding the New World in the search for Valerie. Photo \/ Anna Heath. \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Locals helped search the streets surrounding the New World in the search for Valerie. Photo \/ Anna Heath. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">The search was centred around New World Woolston where she had last been seen, spanning out across the Heathcoate River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Before she was found this evening, police had expressed their concerns about Hargrave\u2019s wellbeing given the length of time that had passed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police thanked everyone who assisted with the search over recent days. Hargrave went missing from Woolston on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[121953,74,1558,4487,3989,1874,236803,661,6501,111,43,139,69,19098,1870,7811,28050,162,1354],"class_list":["post-467967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-81yearold","tag-after","tag-been","tag-christchurch","tag-effort","tag-found","tag-hargrave","tag-major","tag-missing","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-safe","tag-search","tag-since","tag-thursday","tag-valerie","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467967","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=467967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}