BOY'S DEATH
FATALITY AT MATAHI INQUEST CONCLUDED The inquest into the death of Wiri Ngawaka, aged, 13, son of Mr and Mrs Paul Ngawaka, whose body was found beside a haystack at Matahi on Septem-* ber 20th with a gunshot wound in the chest, was concluded before Mr G. A. Brabant, district coroner, yesterday. The first witness, ,Paeroa Ngawaka, deposed that the boy was lier -adopted son. He was always in good health and the best of spirits. She did not .know that he was in possession of a. gun and could riot say how he secured possession of the weapon. 1 Hape Mana Hori:, aged 12, said that on the day of the, fatality he • and Ngawaka ran away from school. Ngawaka showed witness a cai'tand said he was going to kill himself. He did not say wliy he was going to kill himself. Constable O. S. Rice gave evidence of finding thd body near a haystack and described the wound and the position of the shotgun, a 'double-barrelled gun. The coroner returned a verdict that Wiri Ngawaka died as the result of a gunshot wound in the chest, self-inflicted.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 223, 9 October 1940, Page 5
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191BOY'S DEATH Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 223, 9 October 1940, Page 5
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