GIRL'S DEATH
FALL FROM A HORSE inquest OPENED AT WHAKATANE Evidence concerning the death o'i Putiputi Paiteriki, aged 10 year s , a Maori girl of Ruatoki North,, in the Whaaktane Hospital, was given when the inquest was opened yesterday afternoon at the Whakatane Courthouse by Mr G. A. Brabant, .T.P V> coroner. The evidence of Peita Pateriki, farmer;, the child's father, showed that his daughter on Thursday left home to ride to his brother's house to spend the night. She was riding double on a quiet school ponv with her cousin Mere Hatuta, • and the horse apparently slipped on the roadside and fell, throwing the girls off a.nd treading on deceased's stomach as it struggled. He found his daughter in a good deal of pain at his brother's hou.se, and he telephoned Dr Fletcher Cole, who ordered her to be taken to the Whakatane Hospital where she died later. The inquest was adjourned sine di" to allow of police inquiries.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 23, 12 June 1939, Page 5
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160GIRL'S DEATH Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 23, 12 June 1939, Page 5
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