GIRL SCALDED
FALLS INTO SWIMMING BATH AT OHINEMUTU PA IN QRITICAL CONDITION Painful injuries were reeeived hy a Maori girl, Kura Haumaha aged ahout 16 years, living at Waitete, Ohinemutu, shortly after midday yesterday when she was hadly scalded 'while washing clothes at the mixed swimming bath in the native reserve. It is stated that in company with Mrs. Polly Loffley, the unfortunate victim was washing clothes in the bath which was covered with about an inch of water running into the bath from a tap on one1 end. The tap leads from a boiling spring at the back of the bath. Miss Haumaha had borrowed Mrs. Loffley's washtuh and was standing on the concrete approach with her hack to the bath iand with her elbows on the wooden fence. Without further waming Ishe fell baekwards into the bath with such force that she lapsed into unconseiousness and before she eould he lifted out was severely scalded hy th'e running water. Dr. w. S. Wallis wiaia called and ordered her removal to King George V Hospital where she lies in a eritical condition. . v
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 494, 30 March 1933, Page 5
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