{"id":592612,"date":"2026-09-07T05:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592612\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T05:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:26:15","slug":"whangarei-hatea-river-death-mans-body-found-case-referred-to-coroner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592612\/","title":{"rendered":"Whang\u0101rei H\u0101tea River death: Man\u2019s body found, case referred to Coroner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GW243SQWJBB7BPH3CRZUWRASME.png\" alt=\"Sarah Curtis\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/author\/sarah-curtis\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Curtis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>7 Sep, 2026 01:47 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/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 data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Whang\u0101rei&#8217;s H\u0101tea River, near where a body was discovered in the water on Saturday. Photo \/ NZME <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The death of a man found in Whang\u0101rei\u2019s  H\u0101tea River over the weekend will be referred to the coroner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were called to Port Rd about 3.40pm on Saturday  after the man\u2019s body was discovered in the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         In an update today, police said a post-mortem<br \/>\n         had been completed and work was ongoing to formally identify the man and support his next of kin.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Hap\u016b Te Parawhau has declared a three-day r\u0101hui from H\u012bh\u012baua to Pah Rd, Onerahi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Police thanked the public for their patience while staff worked at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah Curtis Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7 7 Sep, 2026 01:47 AMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7800,1121,12629,634,1874,42,204085,16122,43,1523,38538,6739,61,40,38,41,39,4767,1869,57767,1533],"class_list":["post-592612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-body","tag-case","tag-coroner","tag-death","tag-found","tag-headlines","tag-htea","tag-mans","tag-news","tag-over","tag-referred","tag-river","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-weekend","tag-whangrei","tag-whangreis","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592612","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=592612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}