A funeral service will be held next week for an infant that was found dead on the side of a road in Blenheim earlier this year.<\/p>\n
On May 19, police were called to Wairau Bar Rd<\/a> just before 1.30pm after a machinery operator found the infant’s body. A post-mortem examination<\/a> later confirmed the baby was stillborn. <\/p>\n The service will be held at Fairhall Cemetery children’s memorial area on Wednesday, July 29 at 10.30am. <\/p>\n Detective Sergeant Jason Hillgrove said local businesses and community groups had “generously donated time, services, and resources” to assist with arrangements for the funeral service.<\/p>\n He added that police were continuing to work to identify any family members through forensic inquiries.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are still concerned for the welfare of the mother. We would like to ensure she is safe and can receive any appropriate treatment or support,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n Anyone with information relevant to the investigation was encouraged to contact police via 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A funeral service will be held next week for an infant that was found dead on the side…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,16256,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-537084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-marlborough","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\/537084","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=537084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}