FATAL BURNS IN FIRE
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Two Outbreaks ai Bealey Hotel LEAKY LAMP BLAMED
. (By Telograph-
CHRISTCHURCH, March 20. Albert Cochrane, son of Fred Cochrane, licensee of the Bealey Hotel, died to-day from terrible burns received in a fire which .destroyed the hotel late last night. Mr Cochrane, who was aged 20. received the burns' while trying to save property from the fire. He was broufibt to Christchurch by a private car and died in St. George's Hospital at noon. Twice last evening fire broke out, the first time in one of the bedrooms when* a leaking petrol lamp caught fire and was with difficulty extinguished- This was at 9.30. Shortly after 11 o'clock a second fire broke out in the ceiling of the hall and all efforts to pi'event ita spread proved fruitless.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 56, 22 March 1937, Page 6
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134FATAL BURNS IN FIRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 56, 22 March 1937, Page 6
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