Upsets at conference
PA Hastings Death and illness struck the Maori Women’s Welfare League conference in Hastings on Tuesday. A Palmerston north delegate, Mrs Pearl Osborne, collapsed from a heart attack just after the morning’s business session began and died in hospital soon after.
Mrs Osborne was sitting listening to an address by Sir James Henare on the Treaty of Waitangi when she collapsed. Delegates went to her aid and an ambulance was called to take her to hospital.
Later in the morning an elderly Northland delegate, Mrs Ripeka Manihera, became ill and was also taken to hospital by ambulance. Dr David Yates, a Hastings doctor who had just mounted the stage to give an address on genetic engineering, treated Mrs Manihera at the conference with medication she had with her.
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