FALL INTO HOT POOL
MAORI CHILD DROWNED (Per Press Association.) ROTORUA, this day. An 18-month-old Maori child, Hona Hetekia Waaka, was drowned by falling 'into a hot pool in Whakarewarewa late on Monday afternoon. The accident was not reported to the police until yesterday. The mother of the child left it playing in the house while she was absent for about a-quarter of an hour, and on her return found the child had disappeared. Upon making a searcn she found the child had fallen into a pool near the house. The pool was 2ft. deep and was used for washing clothes by the natives in the vicinity. The child was dead when discovered. ~A verdict of accidental death by drowning was returned by the coroner, Mr. W. Ir. Richards, at an inquest held yesterday. .-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19893, 22 March 1939, Page 6
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