MAN’S LONELY DEATH
NO FOOD OR CLOTHING EVIDENCE AT INQUEST i ____ “Social services available in New Zealand to-day make is unnecessary for anybody to go without food or clothing as long as the position ,is known,” commented the district coroner, Mr. G. H. Morrish, at' an inquest into the death of a Dalmatian, Toma Raos, aged 65, who was found dead in his shack on the gumfields at Poroti, near Whangarei, on July 19. The coroner emphasised that Mr. Raos had lived in an isolated and unfrequented place, but whatever food he had asked for had always been sent to him. It was only right to state that if his neighbours and countrymen had been aware of the conditions under which he was living the position would have been changed. % After hearing the evidence of Constable G. Snow and Mate Kokich, the coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence that death was due to heart- failure induced by . debility and lack of food, .clothing and nourishment.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20016, 15 August 1939, Page 4
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