BAN AGAINST TANGIS.
PRACTICE NOT HEALTHFUL. ; : REFUSAL OF PERMISSION. f B T xBLEOKAPH.—OWS eORRESPONnkNT.T CHHTSTGHimGif. I'Tiday. The Health Department has refused permission to the Maoris at Rapaki to have a tangf for a; woman who died at the pa., : . • , - ■'~ :■ ' ,: ; • "We are going to put our toot down ion the practice,".said thip district health officer, V r Telford. He said also that the department nq. longer a|i o w e d the r North Island Maoris to, hold, tangis, and there W as no reason why the; natives, in the. South should not be treated ,'iho same wav. Tlie department's pbjection "to the custom js that it; is not in the. interests of public hea,ltb thait:,the i:erempny should, be held,, especially ;jf thoAdeath has /been 1 liue to infectious. disease, 'i; The woman at Bapaki died ef pneumonia, ,'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18771, 26 July 1924, Page 8
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137BAN AGAINST TANGIS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18771, 26 July 1924, Page 8
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