Tangimoana Resident's Death In Dunedin

Chronicle (Levin), 15 June 1948, Page 3

Tangimoana Resident's Death In Dunedin

DUNEDIN, June 14. Tho adjourned inquest into the death of Artliur Gordon Ivaie, a marriod bushman and storeman, aged 50, of Tangimoana, Palmerston North, was coneluded before Mr. H. W. Bundle, S.M., as Coroner. At the time of his death Mr. Kale was living in Dunedin whcre lifi had come to be uear his son, aged 4, who was a patient at the Dunedin Public Hospital. The poliee sergeant said that when deceased went to bed 011 the night of April 12 he appeared to be quite norjnal and in good health, but in the morning the man who was sharing a room w'ltli him found he was dead. There wero neither external signs of violence nor evideuce of any poisoning, said the police surgeon (Dr. E. R. Ilarty), and in his opinion death was duc to natural causes. Dr. E. F. D'Ath, Professor of Pathology at the University of Otago Medical •Hchool, who conducted the postmortem on the day after Mr. Kale's death said that deceased was an obese juan and he (lied from heart failurc as a result of degenerative changes in the muscles of the heart. The Coroner found in aceordance with tbe medical evidence.