BURNED TO DEATH
FATE OF MAORI BOY EVIDENCE AT INQUEST [by TELEGRAPH —OWN correspondent] TE KUITI, Monday An inquest was held before Mr. R. M. Somerville, coroner, concerning the death of Nerihana Tapu, the Maori boy, aged seven years, who was fatally burned in a whare at Tiroa, Mangapeehi, last week. Kakenga Kingi, a bushman. the foster father of deceased, said that Nerihana and another boy. aged five, were put to bed by their mother at nine o'clock. Witness was awakened at eleven and found the whare enveloped in flames. He saw the younger lad outside. On endeavouring to enter by the door witness was driven back by flames, but he forced an entrance through the wall. Deceased staggered out wrapped in a blanket Camphorated oil was applied to his burns. A doctor was summoned from Te Kuiti. At 6.30 tho following morning the lad suddenly sank and died at 9.30. A verdict of accidental death from shock, following burns, was returned by the coroner.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22108, 14 May 1935, Page 12
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