SHOCKING DEATH.
Maori Child Had Both Feet Burnt Off.
Per Press Association.
GISBORNE, June t2.
Shockingly burned about the legs and body, a nine-month-old Maori infant, Whakatakura M’Lean, died at Hiru hararua half an hour after her mother had discovered that she had crawled into a fire on the floor of a whare. Both the child’s feet were burnt off, and the burns extended right up the legs to the body.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20329, 12 June 1934, Page 7
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