MAORI BOY’S DEATH
(Peb United Press association.) TAIHAPE, June 16.
At the inquest- on a Maori boy, three years of age, who died on Sunday at Winiafa, near Taihape, the medical evidence showed that death was the result of haemorrhage of the brain following a ruptured artery caused by a blow or a fall. The stepfather, Wereta Takurua, gave evidence that the boy fell on the veranda last Thursday. Witness noticed a bruise over the eye, and the child cried a little. He called a doctor on Sunday, but on arrival the child was dead. A verdict in accordance with the medical testimony was returned.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21363, 17 June 1931, Page 9
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