SHOTS FIRED IN WINDOW
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Six Sleeping Maori Children Have Lucky Escape
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GISBORNE, Nov. "14. Two shotgun . cartridges weyofired through a bedroom window of a house occupied by Tapore Korau, his wife and family at Tokata, near Te Araroa^ 110 miles north of Gisborne, late on Saturday night. a • The bedfopm was occupied by six Maori children- rangirigfiA, age from one to 16 yeal^-jj Tfiili- -wallS^were riddled with pellets, but nonef was injured. The pellets passed over the top of the beds of the sleeping children and the window was- shattered by the blasts.;; " * The shotg were fired . not long after the 16-year-old daught&r had arrived home from the- pictures. Before the shots were fired- one of the occiipants is reportod to" have seen a man peer through the window. Police" investigations are proceeding".
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 November 1949, Page 5
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136SHOTS FIRED IN WINDOW Chronicle (Levin), 14 November 1949, Page 5
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