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MAORI FOTOTD DEAD. HEAD PARTLY BLOWN OFF. Auckland, Oct. 21. The Pukekohe police received information last evening that a Maori named Kihi had been found dead in bed at Tauranganni yesterday morning with his head partly blown off. Tauranganui is a Maori settlement on the Waikato River about 15 or 20 miles from Pukekohe. The details supplied to the police are meagre, and the manner in which the deceased met his death is not yet known. The district coroner at Pukekohe, Mr. C. B. Roadley, in company with Sergeant Cowan, of Pukekohe, will proceed to the scene of the fatality to-day for the purpose of holding an Inquest.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1915, Page 7
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110BACK-BLOCKS TRAGEDY. Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1915, Page 7
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