{"id":500632,"date":"2026-06-29T06:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/500632\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T06:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:06:16","slug":"missing-fisherman-dilane-harding-body-found-near-taharoa-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/500632\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing fisherman Dilane Harding: Body found near Tah\u0101roa coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waikato Herald<\/p>\n<p>29 Jun, 2026 02:30 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The body of a fisherman missing off the west coast of the North Island has been found. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Dilane Harding, 55, was reported missing by family on June 18 when he didn\u2019t come home from fishing off Paparoa Rock, on the west coast of  Tah\u0101roa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police were called<br \/>\n         after a family member found his vehicle with his dog still inside and his belongings near his usual fishing spot on Paparoa Rock.\n        <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Dilane Harding, 55, was reported missing after he failed to return home from fishing off Paparoa Rock, on the west coast of Tah\u0101roa  near \u014ctorohanga. \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Dilane Harding, 55, was reported missing after he failed to return home from fishing off Paparoa Rock, on the west coast of Tah\u0101roa  near \u014ctorohanga. <\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Police confirmed today that a body was sighted by the Eagle helicopter on rocks near Albatross Point during the search on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waikato Herald 29 Jun, 2026 02:30 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1558,7800,11586,250028,19630,1874,103646,2514,6501,3180,111,43,139,529,69,250029,3807],"class_list":["post-500632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-been","tag-body","tag-coast","tag-dilane","tag-fisherman","tag-found","tag-harding","tag-island","tag-missing","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-tahroa","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500632","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=500632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}