FARM TRAGEDY
MAORI FOUND DEAD ACCIDENT AT WAIMANA A Maori, Peter Taranaihi, was round dead recently on Mr J. Boynton’s farm at Waimana. The deceased, who was planting \ trees on a steep face of a hill on the farm, evidently had' a seizure and died.
When found he had rolled several yards down the hillside from where he had been working.
He left as usual at about 7.30 a.m. for work and had not returned to his home at a late hour in the evening, so his wife went to Mr Boynton and informed him. A search party left immediately for the locality. The deceased man’s lunch wasi untouched.'
Mr Taranaihi was 55 years of age, and was a married man residing in Waimana.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 72, 27 August 1947, Page 5
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124FARM TRAGEDY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 72, 27 August 1947, Page 5
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