MAORI’S SUICIDE
Trouble With Family By Telegraph—Press Association. Whakataue, March 30. Pinikera Te Kakara, a Native, age<| 42, and a member of the Teteko Maori Council, committed suicide on Monday evening in the Teteko Native cemetery. Evidence at the inquest held this afternoon showed that Pinikera’s neiee, Ngahaka, and her husband, Remata Hatata, had been living at Pinikera’s house. Pinikera told Hatata to leave the house and take his children but leave his wife, Ngahaka. Batata's mother struck Pinikera on the head with a piece of wood. Kakara, a brother of Pinikera, said he managed to quieten his brother down after the trouble. Constable Edwards, with Dr. Frazerburst, when informed went to Hie scene and found deceased with a shotgun lying across the body. The trigger was tied by a piece of thix to a shrub. The coroner returned, a verdict: that deceased met. his death through a gunshot wound self-inflicted.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 157, 31 March 1937, Page 6
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151MAORI’S SUICIDE Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 157, 31 March 1937, Page 6
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