TRAGIC QUARREL

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 18, 22 January 1940, Page 14

TRAGIC QUARREL

A MAORI KILLED

WANTED MAN FOUND DEAD

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) . • AUCKLAND^ January 21. A" young Maori was attacked and killed at Te Teko, 10 miles from Whakatane, and another- Native, for whom the police were searching, was later found , dead with a gunshot wound in the. chest near Hongi's Track, on the Whakatane-Rotorua highway. The attacked man, Johnny Maaka, aged 20, died l almost immediately from injuries apparently in-

flicted by the crank handle of a motor-car at 10 o'clock last night. The body-.of the other man, Rangi TufcehUtukehu, aged 27, was discovered today.

Tukehutukehu, better known as Robert Tukehu, drove into Te Teko with Maaka- on < Saturday afternoon. While there a quarrel developed between Tukehutukehu and a Maori woman, and Maaka was alleged to have taken part in a struggle. Finally, he was struck over the head with a crank handle.

Tukehutukehu had disappeared when the police party arrived. The police were told that he "had shaken hands with all the Natives at the scene, wishing them goodbye, and writing his will in a form of a note. He then drove away in his car.