MAORI BOY’S DEATH
FATAL BURNS [ Per Press Association ] GISBORNE, Dec. 7. Joseph Wi Rangi, aged eight, succumbed to burns sustained through a lamp catching fire in a house at i’uha. The boy and a girl aged 10 were alone in the house, their grandmother having gone out eeling, A lamp exploded, setting fire to the bedclothes. The girl managed to put the fire out and wrapped the boy in a blanket and carried him to a neighbour’s. Subsequently he was removed to hospital, where he died
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 291, 8 December 1928, Page 6
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