TRAGIC DEATHS
MAORI AND HALF-CAST GIRL
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, May 23
The deaths, under tragic circumstances, oi a young Maori and a halfcaste Maori girl, believed to be cousins, were discovered on Saturday. Olive Mill, aged nineteen, was found lying on the floor of her bedroom at the house where she lived with her mother and stepfather at Kutarere, twelve miles from Opotiki. She had a gunshot wound in the chest and died shortly after being found on Saturday morning. A single barrel shotgun was lying beside her. It had a piece of string attached to the trigger and tied to the leg of the bed. In the afternoon, the body of a yi.ung Maori, Talii Takao, aged twenty-one, was lound with a shotgun wound through the heart, lying on'the floor at a pa at Waiinata, seventeen miles from Gisborne.
The gun had been used earlier in the day for shooting game. Takao was to have been a witness at the inquest concerning the death of Olive Mill.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1932, Page 6
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170TRAGIC DEATHS Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1932, Page 6
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