Death Of Shearer
A verdict of death from exposure after alcoholic insensibility was returned by the Coroner (Mr E. L. Waltori) at Gisborne yesterday at an inquest into the death of Jimmy Rawiri, a Maori shearer, at Tahunga, on Saturday. A companion said he saw Rawiri with several other Maoris in a drunken' state. Rawiri lay down to sleep and was dead when the witness saw him again in the same spot.—(P.A.)
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 October 1947, Page 2
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