MAORI BOY SHOT.
Per Press Association. HAMILTON, April 7. Joe Rota, a Maori boy, aged 12, was fatally shot at Taharoa, near Raglan, over the week-end. • . .. Rota, who lived with his uncle, locked'himself in a whare. Shortly after, his cousin, a little girl, heard a shot and, forcing an entrance into the whare, found her cousin dead,’ with a shot gun near him. . - , The police hold the view that the boy was playing with the gun, when it accidentally discharged.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 112, 8 April 1930, Page 2
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80MAORI BOY SHOT. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 112, 8 April 1930, Page 2
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