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SIGHTSEER’S DEATH

.> THERMAL GROUND COLLAPSES AT ROTORUA. VICTIM FATALLY SCALDED. IBy T.-legi;<plt Press Association ‘ AUCKLAND. January 11 When the ground collapsed bmealh lu r at the Waihiki Maori settlement at Tikilere on Sunday Miss Elizabeth Hardy Brebner aged 35, Auckland, fc l ! into a subterranean cavern ami wa.-: scalded by thermal steam later ti.' n” in hospital Miss Brebner was the eldc-t daughter of .Mr and Mrs A G. Brebner. Mount Eden Miss Brebner was on holiday m Rotorua ami was inspecting tins les-< rkm.iwn thermal region accompanied by a guide. The party had visited one steaming po.J a:nl was je.'..eeedm;. on apparently firm ground at the edge o' a sulphur bed when Miss Brebner suddenly disappeared from sigh: through a hole m ’lie ground, from which scalding eL.mi >1 sliaui coin mem ed to i-sue Though iminediale!;'' rescued .she tiled m the Rotorua pital early mxt morning Examination by the police showeii: that the ground wh<-i- the ’.raged' citrred had been eaten awa> i»> th.-i - mal actum to a thickness • f only an inch and a half When this ciiilaieed i a dry hole about ('.ft in depth amt -I'V-i e; J !.-'••. ‘. a let! ,<■

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1941, Page 7

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195

SIGHTSEER’S DEATH Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1941, Page 7

SIGHTSEER’S DEATH Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1941, Page 7

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