Maori Enters Wrong Pool at Rotorua
SUCCUMBS TO FATAL SCALDS. (Special to “Times.”) ROTORUA, Last Night. An elderly native, Mutu Kapene, aged about 60 years, who was discovered crawling in great agony through some tall grass in the vicinity of some bathing pools at Ohinemutu in the early hours of Saturday morning succumbed to severe scalds in the Rotorua Hospital to-day. Kapene apparently went for a bathe but in the darkness went into the wrong pool. He entered a particularly hot pool which feeds the pools used for bathing by the Maoris. By special arrangement Reuters Worm Service. In addition to other special sources of information, Is used In the compilation of the overseas Intelligence published In this Issue, and all right* therein In Australia and New Zealand ar reserved. Such of the cable news In this Issue is Is so headed has appeared In Th< rimes and is sent to this paper by special permission. It should be understood that the opinions are not those of Tha Times unless exr.ressly stated to so.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 39, 16 February 1937, Page 7
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