SLIPPED INTO HOT POOL

Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1934, Page 6

SLIPPED INTO HOT POOL

GIRL'S DEATH AT ROTORUA

RETURNING FROM EVENING SWIM.

NINTH FATALITY OF ITS KIND.

QUESTION OF ERECTING FENCES.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Rotorua, Last Night. Another thermal pool tragedy occurred to-day when Nona Pettit, a 20-year-old girl, died in the Rotorua hospital as the result of falling into a hot pool in the Kuirau Reserve on Thursday evening. This was the ninth tragedy that has occurred in connection with these pools during the past 35 years. It is understood that immediate instructions were issued to have fences erected round them. . , , Apparently the girl, accompanied by a male companion, went to the. reserve shortly after 9 o’clock with the intention of bathing in one of the larger pools. She left the water before her companion in order to dress, but while passing along a narrow path between two small hot pools she slipped and fell. Her companion heard a splash and a scream, and clambering out of the water found the girl just coming to the surface. He dragged her out and immediately took her home, summoning a doctor en route. . , , Miss Pettit was ordered to hospital out died there this morning. An inquest was opened for identification purposes before Mr. W. L. Richards, coroner, this afternoon and adjourned sine die.