MAORI BOY SHOT
BELIEVED TO BE ACCIDENTAL (Por Press Association.) HAMILTON, this day. Joe. Rota. 12. a. Maori boy. win fatally shot at- Taharoa, near Raglan during the week-end.
Rota, who lives with an uncle, locked himself ill a whine. Shortly after, a cousin, a little girl, heard a shot, and forcing an entrance into the whare, found her cousin dead with a shotgun near him.
The police hold the view that the liny was playing with the gun when il accidentally discharged.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17228, 7 April 1930, Page 8
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