DEATH OF MAORI CHILD.
INQUEST AT MARATOTO. On Monday morning Constable McClinchy received advice of the death of a Maori girl, aged four years, at MaraV'to. Later in the day he, with Mr F. E. Flatt, district coroner -and Dr. G. T. Smith, visited the Maratoto Pah, near Hikutaia, and an inquest was held.
The child proved to be Ngareo Hakato daughter of Hakato Tehau F labourer, of Marakopa, near Kaw.hia. Deceased had been living with her grandfather, Tama Huirau, at iWharepoa, .Where she had died on Friday last, the body then being taken to the wha’re of Iriri Tarata, at Maratoto.
The post-mortem disclosed that the child had died- of tuberculosis, and a verdict was returned accordingly.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5233, 1 February 1928, Page 2
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118DEATH OF MAORI CHILD. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5233, 1 February 1928, Page 2
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