Farmhand’s Body Found Hanging In Cowshed: Inquest Adjourned
On Saturday morning the body of Norman Twist, a farmhand, aged 19, was found hanging in the cowshed on Mr B. Burnett’s farm at Waimana, where he had been working. An inquest was opened before the District Coroner, Mr C. S. Armstrong, at Whakatane, and adjourned sine die, after formal identification of the body. It is undei’stood that Twist seemed quite as usual on Saturday morning, when he said he was going to play tennis. Shortly afterwards he was found hanging from a rafter in the shed.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 95, 4 November 1947, Page 5
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95Farmhand’s Body Found Hanging In Cowshed: Inquest Adjourned Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 95, 4 November 1947, Page 5
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