{"id":536869,"date":"2026-07-21T12:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/536869\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:38:11","slug":"funeral-planned-for-blenheim-baby-found-dead-on-roadside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/536869\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral planned for Blenheim baby found dead on roadside"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hillgrove said police are still working diligently to forensically identify family members. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are still concerned for the welfare of the mother,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would like to ensure she is safe and can receive any appropriate treatment or support.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shortly after the infant was found local iwi, Te R\u016bnanga o Ng\u0101ti Rarua, laid a r\u0101hui on the area. Photo \/ Cherie Howie<\/p>\n
Shortly after the infant was found local iwi, Te R\u016bnanga o Ng\u0101ti Rarua, placed a r\u0101hui on the area \u201cacknowledging the people involved in the event, who were indirectly impacted, and so we\u2019re here to support them as well\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all come together and share the load and the burden in terms of this,\u201d Te R\u016bnanga o Ng\u0101ti Rarua pouwhakahaere\/chief executive Shane Graham said at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t even know the baby or the father or whoever\u2019s been involved, but it doesn\u2019t mean that we don\u2019t have our responsibilities to provide that manaakitanga and that support to them, because it\u2019s in our patch.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police also continue to seek information from the public. <\/p>\n
Contact police through the 105 service, referencing file number 260519\/9172.<\/p>\n
The service will be held at the Fairhall Cemetery children\u2019s memorial area at 10.30am on July 29. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hillgrove said police are still working diligently to forensically identify family members. \u201cWe are still concerned for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24752,6794,17184,690,2082,1874,26524,42,14236,12518,3234,130,43,90,26346,1314,49612,2552,6102,108816,131,40,38,41,39,1533],"class_list":["post-536869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ago","tag-baby","tag-blenheim","tag-dead","tag-for","tag-found","tag-funeral","tag-headlines","tag-held","tag-infant","tag-months","tag-more","tag-news","tag-on","tag-planned","tag-road","tag-roadside","tag-service","tag-side","tag-stillborn","tag-than","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536869","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=536869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}