THE OBJECTIONABLE TANGI.
SHOULD BE SUPPRESSED.
| lIV TK].K<;H.UMI. I'RKXS ASSOt'l AUTO V,] Giaborne, Thiß Day.
In his report <o the Cook Hospitßl Board, Inspector York reported that at Murawai the natives held a tangi at which the lid was taken from a coflin containing the body of a native who had died from typhoid. Subsequently four cases of typhoid occurred m the neighbourhood, at least one of which was caused through this tangi; Mr also atated~that a Coffin with the iKiiiv of a Maori who died on March 1 nth last is still unprotected on the surface of the ground at the Wainui native burial ground.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 466, 18 May 1912, Page 5
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106THE OBJECTIONABLE TANGI. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 466, 18 May 1912, Page 5
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