MAORI BOY'S DEATH
ACCIDENT NEAR TE TEKO SLIPPED BETWEEN TRUCKS A shocking fatality occurred near Te Teko when a thirteen-year-old Maori school boy Wiremu Hunua (Billy Schooner) was run over by a moving procession of trucks drawn by the locomotive attached to Messrsi G. Syme's Timber Mills at Edgecumbe. The deceased with his mate Johnny Tuatu'ku, apparently jumped aboard the. train while, it was moving and proceeded to clamber from one truck to another. Whilst doing this deceased .slipped, on a coupling and fell between the trucks, the wheels passing over his body and inflicting shocking injuries from which he must have died almost instantly. The body was taken to the Te Teko Pah where the inquest was opened for identification and then adjourned.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 19, 29 October 1943, Page 5
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124MAORI BOY'S DEATH Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 19, 29 October 1943, Page 5
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