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FAILURE TO CALL DOCTOR.' (By Telegraph. Press Association.) • TAUMARUNUI, Wednesday. At the inquest on a female Maori child named Tame Warena,,aged ll months, who died at Kaitepeka, the Coronor (Mr A. S. Laird) said the Government was doing all in its power to preserve and improve the Maori people, who should take advantage of the medical and nursing assistance provided. Neither infants nor adults should be allowed to die through lack of medicine,, or attention. Pakehas guilty of such neglect were punished, and natives certainly would be held to account in the near future if the occasion warranted it. u . , The remarks made; 1 the oner said, because one;;.of ;the"a)Ctual parents, although knowing 'his 'child was ill, left it toUhe foster or adopted parents to;provide proper assistance. The inquest was>adjourned sine. s die..
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1783, 15 July 1926, Page 5
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