MAORI GIRL SHOOTS HERSELF
(11 TELEGRAPH.—PftKSS ASSOCIATION.)
CAMBRIDGE, This Day.
Yesterday afternoon, a Maori girl, 15 years of age, committed suicide by shooting herself through the chest with a double-barrelled gun. The girl was a milkmaid engaged by a Maori farmer at Ma.takohe, Pukekura, near Cambridge. It is thought the deed was done in a, fit of anger.
A motor-car accident in Adelaide-road last evening resulted in a boy_ named Milton Young, eleven years of age, having his right leg fractured. The boy, who resides with his pa-rents in Taranakistfeet, was taken to the Hospital, and is now making satisfactory progress.
Mr. A. T. Trendle will sell by auction at the Central Auction Rooms to-morrow, at 2 p.m., household furniture and effects, 2 drophead Singer sewing machines, etc.
A free public lecture on the subject of "Coal" will be delivered by Mr. W. Donovan, M.Sc, at the Petohe Technical School to-morrow evening at 7.30 o'clock.
Messrs. E. Johnston and Co. will sell a number of gramophones and a collection of animal" and mineral curios in their mart, at 2.30, on Friday.
A grand concert in aid of the Melanesian Mission Fund will be'given by the Cheer-Oh Girls in the club room, Pittstreet, Wadesto\^n, on Monday evening, next, at 8 o'clock.'
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 41, 17 August 1921, Page 6
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