SCALDS PROVE FATAL
CHILD FALLS INTO BOILING POOL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 1. A girl aged four years received severe scalds from which she later died in the Rotorua Hospital when she fell into a boiling pool near the Utuwhina Stream in Ohinemutu. The child was: Pauline Kerrigan, daughter of Mr D. Kerrigan, of Ohinemutu. The child had accompanied a maid employed by her parents to a store nearby her home and, apparently while . '.he maid was making purchases in the store, the child strayed and fell into the pool. A Maori girl, attracted by the child’s cries, dragged her from the J water. She was taken to the Rotorua 7 Hospital, where she later died. \
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1939, Page 9
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117SCALDS PROVE FATAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1939, Page 9
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