ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 12 July 1920, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

(United Press Association) ROTORUA, This Day. About 7 o’clock Saturday evening, Edward King, assistant clerk of the Magistrate’s Court, lost his life through accidentally stepping in the dark into a hot hole in the native reserve at Whakarewarewa. He was visiting Alaori friends, and had just gone a short distance after leaving their house when lie disappeared from view. A Alaori who saw the occurrence gave the alarm, but nothing was seen in the hole, which'is about 33 feet deep, with boiling water ten or twelve feet below' ground. The Alaoris worked strenuously to recover the body* They communicated with the_ police and Constables Johnson and Neil went to the scene with ropes and grappling iron, and about ten o’clock file body was recovered. A Alaori leaned.,into the rising steam and was held by the feet by "another Alaori on the bank, am! fa stoned a rope to the corpse. Deceased was n returned soldier, about 30 years of age, and a Single mam to bee OINTMENT. > “Would you kindly Bead me at once a pot of your Bee Ointment, I used it over 20 years ago, and ascit is still as good as it used to be, it is good enough for men. I enclose Is Ad. Yonrs truly. R, "Walker, Eaetihi.” That’s only one —and nothing we can say of Bee Ointment equals what the hosts if users say. _ Try Bee Ointment for yourself. It dory its work quickly, easily, and at little cost. For wound's of all sorts, eland, ruff, skin troubles, and insect bites, use Bee Ointment. Cost® nn-y Is 6d for largo pot. Free sample from Bee Ointment Proprietary, Box 38R, Wellington.

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