DEATH OF A MAORI.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1926, Page 6

DEATH OF A MAORI.

BUS DRIVER EXONERATED. DOLN'GS AT TE KAUWHATA. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) ,• HAMILTON, this day. > Strong comment on the amount of" drinking that went on at Saturday night« entertainments at Te Kauwhata, particularly among natives, was made by Mr. Wyvera Wilson, S.M., at Huntly yester. day, when inquiring into the circmn- ) stances of the death of a Waerenga. i Maori named George Porangi, who died at Huntly on Sunday morning. Mr. Wilson also considered that To . Kauwhata was in need of better police supervision. , The evidence went to show that de* 1 ceased was the worse for liquor after i attending a -picture show and a dance ; at Te Kauwhata last Saturday evening, > He was a passenger by a motor bus re*'. turning to Waerenga, where he resided. ? On the journey he caused a disturbance > on the bus by interfering with the driver i and other passengers, the result being that the vehicle was brought to a stand* \ still and Porangi put off. It then appeared that when tha ' vehicle re-started Porangi ran after it, and endeavoured to get on again, but fell, and was run over by a back wheel, expiring at Huntly a short while later. "The driver of the bus had shown a great deal of forbearance, and no Mams . was attachable to anyone," remarked tha. coroner in finding that deceased had died: i from shock following injuries which h«V received through being accidentally rua j over by a motor, midway between Mer«i cer and Huntly. I Te Kauwhata is in the Mercer police"! district, Mercer station being twelve { miles away. There is no publichouse at' Te Kauwhata. It will be remembered that a deputa* tion from the Te Kauwhata Fruit* growers' Association waited on the Mm* ' ister of Health (Hon. J. A. Young) when he opened the new post office at Te Kan* whata, and urged that a constable be stationed there. '«