“DEAD” MAORI RETURNS
APPEARS AT OWN TANGI. AMAZEMENT OF MOURNERS. Gisborne, July 18. There was a dramatic sequel to the disappearance of a Maori returned soldier, Philip Kaimona, reported last week at Wairoa. He left a letter for his wife stating he was “tired of life” and the police and others, believing that he had committed suicide, searched for his body. Amazement was great when the supposed dead man put in a sudden appearance at his own tangi, merely remarking that it was too cold outside. It took some time for the mourners to realise that the “appearance” was not that of his “kehua,” or spirit, which had broken the poet’s assertion respecting »the bourne from which no traveller returns.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1933, Page 6
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