RESCUED FROM FIRE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 92, 12 January 1935, Page 4

RESCUED FROM FIRE

Father Saves Crippled Son By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, January 11. A crippled boy was rescued with difficulty from a blazing house in Ponsonby this morning. The house was owned by Mi‘. O. W. Hughes, and living with him were Ills wife and five children, the youngest boy, aged nine, being a cripple. The parents were sleeping in the front room, the two girls in a bedroom across the hall, and three boys in the third bedroom. The father was awakened by a noise, and went toward the boys’ room. He was met by a sheet of flame, through which he dashed and found a tongue of flame coming through the wall close behind the crippled son’s head. All the boys were asleep. He carried the cripple and hurried the others out of the house, at the same time calling to his wife and daughters. Mrs. Hughes tried to telephone to the fire brigade, but was prevented by flames. The house was doomed by the time the family reached the road, aud they saved nothing except an aviary containing canaries and budgerigars, Au amount of £9 which Mr. Hughes had bad hidden, under the mattress was lost.

The house was insured for £6OO and the furniture for £2OO with the Yorkshire Company.