FATAL END TO PIG HUNT.
YOUNG MAORI DROWNED (From Our Own Correspondent.) OPOTIKI, this day.
At the inquest at Raukokore, before Mr. J. S. W. Neilson, acting-coroner, concerning the death of Henare Rika, aged 24, on October 6, Edward Waititi gave evidence that he accompanied deceased up the Raukokore River Valley on a pig-hunting expedition. Heavy rain fell during the day and when they returned on horseback at nightfall the river was in flood. It was necessary to cross the river several times and while crossing in one place both were swept away. Witness managed to get to the bank but his companion disappeared. The coroner returned a verdict that deceased was accidentally drowned while attempting to cross the Raukokore River while in flood.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 249, 21 October 1935, Page 9
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FATAL END TO PIG HUNT.
Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 249, 21 October 1935, Page 9
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