Police looking for a missing uncle and nephew say the discovery of two bodies in Mamaku Forest is being treated as suspicious.
Raymond Fleet, 51, and James Fleet, 25, from Rotorua, were reported missing near Tauranga last Wednesday.
Police said the bodies they had found were yet to be formally identified, and a scene examination would take place tomorrow.
The disappearance was being treated as suspicious, and police said the deaths were too.