FATAL FIRE NEAR TE TEKO
THREE MAORI CHILDREN INCINERATED. MOTHER CROTCALLY BURNT. 'Peb United Press Association.) WHAKATA-NE, October 24. Three Maori children were burnt to death I the mother was critically burnt, and the .' only surviving child badly burnt at Mr ' George J. Murray's farm near Te Toko last night. It appears that the mother, father and four children lived in a substantiallybuilt raupo whare on the farm. This caught fire at about 9 o'clock last niijht, and was burnt to the ground. The father was only slightly burnt. The name of the father is , Pati Ratima.' f Nearly 60 towns have subscribed over £1,000.000 each in wax bonds.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17455, 25 October 1918, Page 2
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