FALL INTO HOT POOL

Northern Advocate, 15 September 1934, Page 9

FALL INTO HOT POOL

SCALDS PROyp FATAL.,., DEATH OF. VOUNG WOMAN," ; (Per Press Association.— Copyright'.’) ; ■ :n. rotorua, ' This;;T)^ The death occurred in the Rptorpa Hospital yesterday pf Misa Nonh'Pettit, aged 20, as the result of, burns received through falling-into, a hotpool ,in the Kuirail Reserve' onv Thursday evening. - ' ' Apparently, the girl, accompanied by a .companion, fwent tp. the Reserve shortly after 9 o’clockto’ bathe in 'one of the larger pool?;; She, left, the- water before' hercompanion' ifr’ order to dress, bpt white passing, a|ong a narrow path between two small4ibt;poo3s she slipped and' : tel!; •' Her' companion 'heard a splash and acscrebmV- r andj.;on reaching a smalLpool, -found iMiss'Pettit just coming to thes surface, , ’Miss. Petit: was’ immediately-taken .home,- a doctor- being l being summoned en route. Miss Pettit was ordered to hospital, but died there yesterday morning.. Ah’ inqdest was' bpeKed before Mr W. L. Richards,' coroner,, yesterday aftefnddn. and'was adjourned sine‘die. Miss- Pettit ■ was a - well-known'-bas-ketball player, and ■ popular /among, young - people in Rotorua.? ’. . v -I This is .the ninth fatality. ; thqfr; haSj occurred., jn ,Connection ...with/, these pools during the past' 35 year?,:; :it is understood that, instructidhg M ‘ , Ur.ere issued yesterday' to hhye-fences t erected around them. ;