MAORI GIRL SCALDED
FALL INTO HOT WATER ACCIDENT AT OHINEMUTU CONDITION REPORTED CRITICAL [by telegraph—press association] EOTORUA, Wednesday Serious injuries wcro received by a Maori girl, Kura Haumaha, aged 16, of Waitete, Ohinemutu, to-day, when she was badly scalded while washing clothes at the thermal swimming bath in the Kuirau Reserve.
The girl was washing clothes in about an inch of water running into the bath from a tap connected with a boiling spiing when she fell backwards into the water. She fell so heavily that she lapsed into unsconsciousness and was severely scalded before she could be lifted from the water. The girl was admitted to hospital, where her condition is reported to be critical.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21454, 30 March 1933, Page 8
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