JUMP OVER A CLIFF.
MAORI WOMAN'S SUICIDE, ESCAPE FROM TWO GIRLS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] TAIHAPE, Monday. A Maori woman, Ngahuia Harawira, commonly known as Mrs. " Punch" Pine, jumped over a cliff about forty feet high into the Moawhango River on Saturday afternoon and was drowned. The body was recovered half an hour after tho woman had mado her fatal leap. The scene of the fatality is twelve miles from Taihape. At the inquest today evidence was given that the deceased had been in poor health during tho past two months and was regarded as mentally weak. Two Maori girls related how they tried to prevent her from jumping over the cliff. They remonstrated with the deceased and subsequently clutched her, but she escaped and threw herself into the river. A verdict of suicide by drowning whilp of unsound mind was returned. The deceased was 71 years of age and was well known in tho Taihapo district.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20960, 25 August 1931, Page 8
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