DEATH IN CAR
WOMAN AT WHANGARA INQUEST ADJOURNED Formal identification of a 28-year-old single Maori woman, Mary Maurirere, who died in a car near Whangara at 1.30 a.m. on September 14, was given at an inquest which opened and was then adjourned sine die by the coroner, Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in Gisborne this morning. The inquest was conducted by Sergeant R. Griffith for the police A Maori station hand, employed at Tangihau station, Hiki Houia. indentified the deceased and said they had been living as man and wife at the transit camp, Gisborne. On July 28 he left the camp to return to Tangihau station, but on September 8 he received a letter asking him to return to Gisborne as Mary Maurirere was ill. When he returned that day he found she was suffering from a badly swollen face and had a large lump on her neck.
She refused to see a doctor, but asked to be taken to her mother's home at Te Puia. They went only as far as the home of another Maori, Lemon Paenga, near Whangara, and remained there till Saturday, when Mary Maurirere, who had gradually become more ill, wished to return to the transit camp. Shortly after midnight on Saturday they set out in Mr. Paenga’s car for Gisborne, but about two miles north of Whangara, Mary Maurirere died.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22434, 15 September 1947, Page 6
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