INJURED MAORI GIRL
MEDICAL AID REFUSED [ STAND TAKEN BY FATHER | [bt telegraph—own correspondent} -1 . OPOTIKI, Tnetdw | The difficulty experienced in per- | suading some Maoris ,vj» secure necei" I sary medical attention was shown wKe#;-\| a Maori girl fell from a tree at \Vai&*jf,J tahi and was fairly severely injured.f | The girl was attended by the district | nurse, Miss Hubbard, but the father -1 refused to allow anyone to remove the | sufferer to the'hospital. • I It was finally necessary for Sergeant | J. Isbister to visit-the meeting hotni» : t : | where the girl was lying veryv ill/1® | interview the father, who warn 6f the consequences in the event -of ";| anything happening to the girl M result of his action. The father claimed || that his sister had refused to alto* || the girl's admission to hospital beinc examined by the medical supermtendent. ' ■:£sss m
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22928, 5 January 1938, Page 10
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139INJURED MAORI GIRL New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22928, 5 January 1938, Page 10
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