On Tuesday the Chief Coroner, Judge Deborah Marshall, released provisional annual suicide figures for the year to 30 June 2016. Within the year there were 579 suicides. This included 129 Māori suicides, two-thirds being males. The Māori suicide rate was 22 per 100,000 people. This is much higher than
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