ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
CLOTHES CATCH FIRE. (Pep Press Association.) OTOKT. March 9. A fatality has been reported to the Otaki Police, by which a MaYu'i woman named Karanaim Tiemi Roac-h met lie’death. She was smoking and threw down a match. Her clothes caught fire and she was severely burnt about the body before the flames were extinguished. She was a- married woman aged forty- three. At the inquest an verdict of accidental death was reCHILD BODY IN HARBOUR. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND. March 9. At the inquest on the body of the child found on Stanley Bn beach on February 19. il was stated that the parentage had not been traced. There were no marks on the skin indicating violence. 1 lie body Imd net been long in the water, and death had occnrori from twenty, four to forty eight hours previously. The Coroner returned a verdict o f death from asphyxiation following suffocation.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16986, 9 March 1923, Page 8
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