FATAL INJURIES
MAORI BOY’S DEATH DISTRESSING CIRCUMSTANCES [ Per Press Association ] GISBORNE, May 19. A fatality occurred at Matawa! this morning, when a four-year-old Maori boy, Mahunga Poi Poi, succumbed to injuries to an eye accidentally inflicted by his father. The parents were taking the boy with them eeling on the Koranga Stream, beyond Matawai. The father was landing an eel with a pitchfork, and not knowing the child was near swung the fork round to throw the eel to the ground. The fork struck the boy, and one prong pierced his eye. The injured child was hurried to the district nurse’s home, but succumbed on the journey.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20151, 21 May 1928, Page 6
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