Three-Year Native Boy Drowned In Stream
Kami Ngarama Tepania, a Maori was drowned in a creek at Ahipara at boy. aged three years and four months, 1 p.m. on Wednesday. The boy’s mother, with other Maori women, was doing her washing after the manner of the natives in the creek, and a number of children were, meanwhile, playing about. Mrs Tepania suddenly missed her child and, on searching, found him in the creek about 15 yards away. On being taken out, the child was apparently dead, and efforts to restorcrespiration were continued for more than an hour, without success. An inquest was opened by the District Coroner. Mr L. A. Mclntosh, and, after some evidence had been taken, was adjourned sine die.
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Northern Advocate, 27 January 1939, Page 6
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