A RIDE IN VAIN
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Sick Maori Child Dies in Mother's Arms
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AUCKLAND, Last Night The plight of Maoris wko live in ti native settlement at Taharoa, some miies south of Kawhia on. the wem coast, without ahy access roads, was evidenced at tlie week-end. A J'Oung native womau, Mns. Daphne Tuaupiki, conveyed her 14-months-old son on horse-back over a bridlo crack to Te Maiki, en route to Kawhai, to seek medical aid for the child. who had been I ill for two days. The bridle track section of the journey involves slow and rough travel, and near Te Maikii th' child died in his mother's arms. Because of the muddy state of the track and the wintry conditions, Mrs. Tuaupiki set off very early in tlie morn ing, llio journey Irqui Taharoa to Ku
wliia being expected to take at least five liours. Althougk Taharoa is one of the oldest settlements in New Zealand and rs inhabited by some '250 natives, comprisirig farmers, who are industrious. aud successi'ul, represenlutions to have a road constructcd from Taharoa to Te Maiki have eo far been without suecess. The death was the third tliat has oceurred recently under the some-w-bat similar circumstances that rela hivcfr had been seeking medical aid.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 171, 6 August 1937, Page 3
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211A RIDE IN VAIN Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 171, 6 August 1937, Page 3
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