“NO CASE TO ANSWER”
DEATH OF A MAORI CHILD. FAILURE TO SECURE A DOCTOR. AUCKLAND, Oct. 30. At the Supreme Court, Tenga Taaka was charged with having failed to provide medical attention for a child four iroutha old at Maungtaturoto. The Crown Prosecutor said the accused was a follower of Ratana. The grandmother of the child stated in evidence that the child had a cold from ten to fourteen days, and she nursed it. If she had known the child was going to die she would have ctilled a doctor. She put oil on the child’s chest and they had prayers for its recovery at which a Wesleyan clergyman baptised the child. Ratana had told her whenever the child was sick they were to get a doctor. Judge Reed said: * 4 This knocks the bottom out of the Crown’s case.” A brother-in-law of the accused said there was nothing in Ratana’s teaching that said they should not have a doctor. The foreman of the jury announced that thev were of opinion there was no case to answer and the charge was dismissed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19443, 31 October 1925, Page 15
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