Schoolgirls found body of Vic coach December 12, 2013 - 2:28PM A group of schoolgirl rowers are being comforted after finding a man's body, thought to be that of missing Australian tennis coach Paul Arber, while training on New Zealand's Waikato River. A person with a rowing team from Hamilton Girls High School that was training on the river was one of two people to call police shortly before 7am (0500 AEDT) on Thursday to say they'd found a body. Detective Inspector Karl Thornton says the person who made the call was working to ensure the girls were being looked after. We are currently working with this team to ensure they receive victim support, and any other support they may require. The body was recovered from the river in the Queenswood area, near Fairfield Bridge, about 7.40am, and has been taken to Waikato Hospital for identification. Mr Thornton said it could take some time to confirm if the body is that of Mr Arber, a Melbourne tennis coach who went missing on Sunday morning, but he said there have been no reports of anyone else missing who could be linked to Thursday's body recovery. Mr Arber's parents, Sam and Richelle Arber, have been contacted and are "understandably very upset with this latest turn of events," Det Insp Thornton said. Police are also speaking to someone after some clothes believed to belong to Mr Arber were found on Cook Street. Mr Arber was last seen in the Waikato River in the early hours of Sunday morning. Two people who saw him in the river as they walked over Victoria Bridge offered to take him back to his accommodation, but when he reached the bridge he changed his mind and walked back to the river.