CHILD KILLED FIRE

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27397, 9 July 1954, Page 10

CHILD KILLED FIRE

NEIGHBOUR RESCUE; BABY GIRL (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. July 8. A 14-month-old girl was save! frai the flames, but her brother, aged 1 years, died as fire swept through thehome in Kaiwaka road, Waiuku, thi morning. The boy was: Stephen Thomas Main, son of Mr mi Mrs Robert Arthur Main. Mrs E. M. Cockburn, a neighbour, saved the girl, Marie Anne Main. Mn Main had gone out for a few minute when the fire started, and her husbd was at work. The back of the house was wd alight before the fire was seen by lb Cockburn about 10.45 a.m. As he sounding the alarm, his wife realisa that the children were probably ffi in the house. She said tomght: “I had an the children might be in the house. I ran to the front door, and after opa* ing it, found Marie lying on the in one'Of the front rooms. “I took her outside. By this tia the back rooms ablaze, andcould not find the little boy,” s» Mrs Cockburn.

YOUTH FATALLY INJURED KNOCKED DOWN BY BUS (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 1 Warwick Alan Ritson. aged 15. of Mr and Mrs A. E. Ritson, of Lowtf Hutt, died in the Hutt Public Bos’ pital this morning soon after bei® knocked over by a New Zealand Bos Services bus in Waiwhetu road. He was assisting a milk vendor, was delivering from a hand cart, CYCLIST INJURED A cyclist suffered head injuries wh® he was involved in a collision witn motor-car in Oxford terrace, near’ij bridge of Remembrance, last evening He is Mr Joseph Dyer, of 98 SeW street. He was admitted to the Cnn ’ church Public Hospital at 10.45 His condition late last evening reported to be satisfactory.