INQUEST OPENED
EVIDENCE OF IDENTIFICATION ONE WITNESS HEARD! On Monday afternoon tlic inquest into the death of Johnny Maaka was opened before Mr G. A. Brabant, J.P., Coroner. After the evidence of one witness had been heart! the inquest was adjourned sine dio. Taute Edwards, in a deposition, said that he was a farmer and contractor at Te Teko. At about 11 p.m on the 20th inst. a Mr .Tamieson, who is a neighbour, called on him and told him that something had happened to Johnny Maaka. "Mr Jamieson asked me would I ■imind waiting at the Post Office while his boy brought Johnny's! father down, and then for me to take the father up to Mi ta's place where the trouble was. I did this and took Johnny's father to Mi ta's place. "When we avirved there Johnnj was lying outside the house on the grass. Sister Mary and Miss Campbell had arrived before I got there, Johnny was dead when I arrived. "I then brought Johnny to the hospital morgue at Whakatane in my {ruck. "I have known Johnny Maaka all his life. He would be about twenty years of age." This completed the initial evidence.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 114, 24 January 1940, Page 5
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