MAORI CHILD'S DEATH
EVIDENCE OF SUPERSTITION COMMENT BY CORONER The opinion that it was to be regretted that some Maoris still held to foolish superstitions was expressed by the coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, at an inquest into the death of a Maori child Girly Aramona, aged one month, which was opened yesterday. The child died at the home of her narents, Mclntyrt* Road, Mangere, on Tuesday. The child's father, Billy Aramona, said the child had been in delicate health since birth. Dr. Noakes had examined the child last Saturday, and had ordered its removal to hospital. The mother refused to allow this, however, and the child was taken home. Witness stated that Maori relatives held -the belief that when a puny child was born, if the child lived ; the mother would die, but if the child died the mother would live. The inquest was adjourned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23037, 14 May 1938, Page 18
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