TRAPPED IN WHARE
ELDERLY MAORI BURNED TO DEATH By Telegraph—Press Association HAMILTON, May 10. Trapped in a whare, an elderly Maori was burned to death at Gordonton last evening. The victim, Hone Paama (79), lived alone in a whare at Gordonton. Deceased, who had been bedridden for twelve months, was last seen at 8 o’clock last evening, when a relative saw him in bed with a lighted candle alongside him. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20105, 11 May 1935, Page 7
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80TRAPPED IN WHARE Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20105, 11 May 1935, Page 7
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