FALL INTO HOT POOL
MAORI CHILD DROWNED. f her Pr,,, Awottixtion.] ROTORUA, March 21. An eighteen months’ old Maori child, Hona Hetekia Waaka, was drowned by falling into a hot pool at Whakarewarewa late cn Monday afternoon. The accident was not reported to the police until the following day. 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 search she found the child had fallen into a pool near the house. The pool was about two feet deep and was used for washing clothes by the natives in the vicinity. The child, was dead when discovered and a verdict of accidental death due to drowning was returned by the coroner, Mr. W. L. Richards, at an inquest held to-day.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 69, 23 March 1939, Page 11
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