FALL INTO HOT POOL
MAORI CHILD'S TRAGIC DEATH
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) ROTORUA, October 4. Badly scalded about the legs and body when he fell into a hot mineral water bath in the Ohinemutu Native Reserve, a three-year-old. Native boy, Ran,gituturu Marsh, died about midday today.
Evidence given by the mother at an inquest opened before Mr. W. L. Richards, Coroner, showed that the child had been playing outside his 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 into the hot bath. When she pulled the child out she found that he had been badly scalded.
After taking the child to her home, she called a doctor, but Vhen he arrived the boy was dead.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 9
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