SUICIDE OF G. C. C. BLACK

Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1932, Page 4

SUICIDE OF G. C. C. BLACK

“NOT IN NORMAL STATE OF MIND.”

ACCUMULATION OF WORRIES.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Wellington, Oct. 26.

G. C. C. Black, M.P. for Motueka, died from the effects of poison self-ad-ministered while he was mentally unbalanced, stated the coroner (Mr. T. B. McNeil, 531.) after hearing th© evidence of doctors, the taxi-driver who drove Black to Makara, and other witnesses who had. been in close contact with Black shortly before his death. Mr. McNeil said it was apparent that Black was not in a normal state of mind at the time he met his death by his own hand, nor had he been for some time. His actions, according to those who knew him well, clearly showed that. In addition there was the fact that during the last few months he had. been a voluntary patient in a mental hospital. That alone was sufficient to account for the death of Black, who was also won-led financially. There was no doubt that the condition x>f his mind, together with accumulated worries of ms own and possibly the responsibility of the office he held, caused him to take his own life.