ROTORUA'S HOT POOLS
MAN LOSES IIIS LIFE. ROTORUA, July 12
About seven o’clock on Saturday evening, Edward King, assistant clerk at the Magistrate’s Court, lost hjs die through accidentally stepping in the dark into a hot hole in a native reserve Wliu.kurew&rcwn. He was visiting Maori iriends an had the house to go to a shop when lie disappeared from view. A Maori saw the occurrence and gave the alarm, but nothing was seen in the hoie, which was about thirty-three feet dee].’ with boiling water, ten or twelve feet below ground. Maoris worked strenuously to recover the body and communicated with the police. Constables Johnston and Neill went to the scene with ropes and a grappling iron and about ten o’clock tbo body was recovered.
Maori leaned into the rising steam, held by the feet by another on the bank', and fastened a rope to it. Deceased was a returned soldier, about thirty years of age, single. He was a brother of H. S. King, formerly registrar of the Native Land Court, Rotorua.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1920, Page 4
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