GRAVE ALLEGATIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10040, 14 July 1910, Page 3

GRAVE ALLEGATIONS.

In reference to the case of a Maori woman, who was abandoned by Natives at Pipiriki, the Wa iganui Herald correspondent yesterday as follows from the sivne —"This poor unfortunate woman . was taken from Pipiriki suffering with a loath some dissass to Hiruhnrama to be treated. Hearing ot the treatment she received I think it is only right that the treatment should be made the subject of inquiry aa, eventually, she died. Can you inform me where or when, not very Ion? since, a certain dead chid was taken in a launch from the foreshore up the river to be buried? The police know the muther and the white man. These things should not he tolerated in a Christian country,, What are Dr. Pomare and his staff doing? The latter statement in the letter emar the papsr in question, refres to the Native practice of taking the bodies of those who die at their camps in town up the These deaths are seldom or gnever registered, and it is but rarely that there is any doctor in attendance to give a certificate )f death. The reason appears to ae that the Nntives are not subject ;o the same laws governing these natters as operate in the case of Europeans. Such occurrences are so common here as to excite little remark, though the local press has frequently drawn attention to them with no result.