TOLAGA GIRL DIES DURING OPERATION
While undergoing an emergency operation for appendicitis at the Cook Hospital last night, a Maori girl from Tolaga Bay collapsed and died. She was:
Tangl Smith, aged 15 years. The girl was admitted from Tolaga Bay late in the evening and died shortly after 2 a.m. A post-mortem examination has been ordered by the coroner, Mr. E. L. Walton, R M., and an inquest is to be opened today.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22947, 16 May 1949, Page 4
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74TOLAGA GIRL DIES DURING OPERATION Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22947, 16 May 1949, Page 4
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