MAORI’S STRANGE CONDUCT
LEFT BROTHER ON ROADSIDE MAX WITH INJURED SPINE.
IBs Tel*grapb - -rreso Association, l ROTORUA, March 1
“It is difficult to understand the conduct of the brother of deceased when be saw the injured man lying on. the ground and was apparently unconcerned, leaving him to go on to the dance,” said 1 the coroner, Mr W. Richards, -at an inquest to-day in returning a verdict of the accidental death of Kercmata Tetoa, a Maori bush worker of Oruanui. near Taupe. The man died in the Rotorua hospital following an accident on February 2. He had been thrown from a horse and fractured his spine.
rt This action appears rephesensihle,” added the coroner, “because although he states that his brother told him he wanted to sleep, thff fact remains that the man.was lying on the ground with an injured spine and his brother should have taken steps to have him removed and medically treated. Instead of doing that he left, him on the roadside until he was found by another person in the early hours of the following morning. This conduct warrants the strongest censure.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 2 March 1935, Page 7
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187MAORI’S STRANGE CONDUCT Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 2 March 1935, Page 7
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