MAORI CHILD'S DEATH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22468, 11 July 1936, Page 12

MAORI CHILD'S DEATH

SCALDED IN HOT POOL PROPER PROTECTION URGED [I)V TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION] ROTORUA, Friday The opinion that tho Borough Council should take stops to provide proper protection round open hot pools in Ohinemutu village, and that where these pools aro on private property, the village Komiti marao should co-opera to to this end, was expressed by tho coroner's jury this afternoon, in returning a verdict of accidental death following an inquest into the circumstances of the death of Tuihana Naera, aged three years, a Maori girl. The child died in the Rotorua Hospital on Thursday, following a fall into a hot pool at Ohinemutu on Wednesday. Evidenco given by tho child's mother was to tho effect that on Wednesday evening at 5.15 o'clock sho went to a hot pool about 15yds. from her house to heat a bottle of milk. She was walking away from tho pool when she heard the child cry out behind her, and saw it in the pool. Until then, she had not been awaro that tho child had followed her, she said. She dragged the child out of tho pool and poured oil over it. She also endeavoured to remove its clothes, which wcro adhering to tho ilesh.