BOILING POOL VICTIM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19859, 1 February 1928, Page 10

BOILING POOL VICTIM.

FATE OF MA 0 111 i BOY. BURNED FROM WAIST DOWN. A FATALITY AT TAUPO. [BY TELEGRAFH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. J TAUPO. Tuesday. While playing on the banks of the river near the Spa Hotel, where there are many boiling pools, a native boy named Hector Samuel, aged 11 years, stepped backwards into one of - these places. He sank up to his waist. Another native boy with him called to him to jump into the river to cool his burning flesh. Kauwhata, who so bravely rescued a boy from drowning a few weeks ago, was fishing from a boat nearby. Immediately he rushed to the boy, and carrying him in his arms, managed to get up a steep bank of slippex - y pumice. He ran along the road and fortunately met a car, in which he put the scalded child. - It was quite evident that the boy's condition was very serious, although he was conscious. He was sent in to the Kirig George Hospital, Rotorua, but died at 4 o'clock this morning. His flesh was literally boiled from his waist to his feet.