ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
FACTORY GIRL’S FATE
(By Telegraph— Pc- Press Association /
AUCKLAND, March 16. Enveloped in flames from blazing wax, which had spilled over her, Miss Pearl Cunnold, aged 22 years, of Sandringham, received fatal burns while working at the factory of Bock and Co.v., chemists, Dominion Road, to-day. b is thought that the girl heated a tin of wax on a stove and that when the wax ignited she accidentally tipped some on to her clothing. Miss Sunnold was taken to the hospital, where she died some hours later.
ROTORUA FATALITY.
ROTORUA, March 16
A two-year-old Maori child, Adam Whaknue, was drowned in the Wait iff stream, flowing into Lake Rotorua this afternoon. Apparently the child wandered away \Jhile playing, and fell into the water. Mis absence was not noticed for n-quarter of an hour, when his mother searched and made the tragic discovery.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1932, Page 5
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