TRAPPED IN WHARE
MAORI BOY BORNEO TO DEATH |Pea United Press Association.! TiTkUITI, May 1. A Maori boy, Nelson Tepu, aged nine years, was burned to death in a whare about one and a-half miles from Matai Camp, near Mangapehi. Two young boys were sleeping in the same whafe, which was about 20ft from that in which their elders slept. The whare was noticed to be on fire between 10 and 12 p.m. on Thursday evening. The younger boy, aged five years, managed to escape, out Nelson Tepu was trapped and died in the fire. His father, Jack Tjpu, resides a$
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Evening Star, Issue 22026, 11 May 1935, Page 20
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101TRAPPED IN WHARE Evening Star, Issue 22026, 11 May 1935, Page 20
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