FALL INTO HOT POOL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 234, 15 September 1934, Page 7

FALL INTO HOT POOL

Young Woman Scalded

ROTORUA TRAGEDY

By Telegraph—Press Association. ROTORUA, September 1-4

Another thermal pool tragedy occurred to-day when Nona Pettit, a twenty-year-old girl, died in the Rotorua Hospital as the result of a fall into a Sot pool in the Kuirau Reserve on Thursday evening. Apparently the girl, accompanied by a male companion, went to the reserve shortly after 9 o’clock with the inten tiun of bathing in one of the larger pools. She left the water before hci companion in order to dress, but while passing along the narrow path between two small hot pools she slipped ami fell. Iler companion beard a splash and a scream, and on clambering out of tho water found the girl just coming to the surface. He dragged her out and immediately took her home, summoning a doctor en route.

Miss Pettit was ordered to hospital' but died there this morning. An inquest was opened for identifina tion purposes before Mr W. L. Rich ards, coroner, this afternoon and adjourned sine die. This is the ninth tragedy that has occurred in connection with these pools during tho past 35 years. It is understood that immediate instructions will bo issued to have fences erected round the pools.