MAORI BOY’S DEATH
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. ACCUSED SENT TO TRIAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WHANGAREI, April 5. Following the death of a 15-year-old Maori boy. Waka Hoori Iharaira, in lhe Rawene Hospital on February 20, Paul Hadfield, aged 32. a Maori farmer of Waimamaku, faced a charge of manslaughter in the Magistrates’ Court, Rawene. today. Evidence w,as given to show that the boy, who was Hadfield's nephew, was struck when in the milking shed with a steel disc-holder of a separator. Hadfield, who had been irritated by the boy putting the dog on dairy cows, said he intended to hit the boy on lhe shoulder but the boy ducked and the point of a rod, about the thickness of a lead pencil, penetrated his skull. Accused was committed for trial in the Supreme Court.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1939, Page 8
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133MAORI BOY’S DEATH Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1939, Page 8
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