Newspapers Hawera & Normanby Star 30 November 1918 Page 4
A VERY SAD CASE.
(From Our Kaponga Correspondent.) On Friday there were two deaths at the Temporary Hospital. Mr and Mrs A. Broomfield of Auroa, who had been some days in the hospital, died within a few hours of one another. This is a very sad case for there is a family of 6 children left orphans. They had been farming at Auroa f or about a year Previous to that Mr Brooomfield was engine-driver at the Kaponga factory for some years. The greatest sympathy will be felt by many friends at the very sad occurrence
This appears to have been influenza