SKELETON FOUND AT RONGOTAI

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 47, 19 November 1926, Page 12

SKELETON FOUND AT RONGOTAI

THAT OF A MAORI WOMAN. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon in the Magistrate’s Court by Mr. E. Page, S.M. (Coroner), on the skeleton of an adult Maori woman, which was found in the sand in the council’s bitumen plant grounds at Rongotai last Monday by workmen. Sergeant Pender of the Kilbirnie Police Station conducted the inquiry for the police. Dr. P. P. Lynch, pathologist at the Wellington Hospital said he had examined the skeleton, which was of an adult Maori woman and expressed the opinion that the deceased had been dead a groat many years—s 6 years. at least. The teeth were in good condition, but worn down by grinding in the same manner as one often saw in Maori skeletons. The remains were of a slimly built woman about. sft. tin. in height. The skeleton was in a good state of preservation. The Coroner found that the remains in ouestion, which were discovered at I,vail Bar in the City of Wellington were of an adult Maori woman, who had been dead for many years. There was no evidence to show when or how she died.