MAORI CHILD'S DEATH.
NURSE I"*T ADVISED. m HA>jy/TON~, Wednesday. "Your child would have been saved had you got the district nurse in time," said the coroner, Mr. F. W. Plaits, *« the inquest held to-day into the death of Pare Huia Rakatau * Maaka, aged «* months, of Tauwhare. The coroner w«* addressing Rakatau Maaka. the father, who said the child was coughing asd vomiting on A'jgust 19 and died the next day. Witness said he was ill himself *» the time. Eh-. A. G. Waddell said tit cause of death was pneumonia. The coroner, in returning a verdict in accordance with the medical testimonysaid Maoris ehould be only too plad t< , take advantage of the se'rvice? of tfct district nuxee when their children became
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 217, 12 September 1940, Page 8
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121MAORI CHILD'S DEATH. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 217, 12 September 1940, Page 8
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