DEATH OF CHILD
POST MORTEM ORDERED MAORI WOMAN’S EVIDENCE The district coroner, Mr F. W. Platts, ordered a post mortem examination yesterday when an inquest into the death of a Maori child, Pare Huia Rakatau Maaka, aged four and a-half months, daughter of Mr and Mrs Rakatau Maaka, of Tauwhare, was opened. The child died at its home yesterday morning. The mother, Riti Rakatau Maaka. stated that at nine o’clock yesterday morning the child commenced to cough a little. She was kept in bed all day, and appeared quite normal. At five o’clock this morning the child was still coughing and vomiting. Witness said she intended to get in touch with the district nurse, but the child died at 8.30. The inquest was adjourned.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21197, 21 August 1940, Page 2
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124DEATH OF CHILD Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21197, 21 August 1940, Page 2
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