TWO MAORI CHILDREN.
BURNED TO DEATH. THAMES. This Day. Two Maori children, Tab a Waikato, 12 months, and Kati Waikato, 3 years, were fatally burned in a whare, at Kerepehi, Hauraki Plains. Four children were in bed in the whare, with a tin oonfaining burning wood in the centre. The mother had gone off to a store for candles, leaving a girl of 12 in charge. The latter fell asleep, and the tin overturned, setting fire to the blankets. The girl rescued two of the children; the other two received burns | to which they shortly succumbed. The I whare was not materially damaged. J only the blankets being destroyed. j
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3533, 22 July 1920, Page 5
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110TWO MAORI CHILDREN. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3533, 22 July 1920, Page 5
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