HOT POOL FATALITY
OHINEMUTU RESERVE' MAORI BOY VICTIM DEATH FROM SEVERE SCALDS [by telegraph —OWN correspondent] ■ ; . ROTORTTA, Tuesday Severely scalded about the legs and body when he fell into a hot mineral water bath in the Ohinemutu native reserve, a three-year-old Maori boy ? Rangituturu -Marsh, died at about midday to-day. Evidence given by the mother at the inquest opened before the coronfer, Mr. W. L. Richards, to-day, showed tha£ the child had been Dlaying outside the home with some other children. At about 11.30 she heard the other children calling to her to come outside, as her son had fallen in the hot bath, "When she pulled the child out she found that he had been severely scalded. A dqctor was called, but when he arrived life was extinct.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23160, 5 October 1938, Page 14
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