MAORI BOY'S DEATH
VERDICT OF THE CORONER (0.C.) HAMILTON, Friday .An inquest into the death of a Maori boy. Sonny Pungatara, aged 16, of Te Align, who was found lying on the roadside at Te Anga on April 7 with compound fractures to his legs, was eoneluded before the coroner. Mr. F. W. Plaits in Hamilton yesterday. .\ verdict of accidental death was given, and Mr. I'latts added that the evidence indicated that deceased had been thrown from the back of a truck against a bank on the side of the road.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23955, 3 May 1941, Page 10
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