SERIES OF MISFORTUNES
FISHERMAN LOSES EVERYTHING IN FIRE. Wellington, November 29. Fire almost completely destroyed a nine-roomed house at Island Bay at four o’clock this morning. George Baxter a fisherman, who occupied the top portion, saved little. He lias been particularly unfortunate of late. Coming over from Picton fie lost his young son, and within a short time of that he was laid up with pleurisy He wa s also one of the three men who nearly lost their lives when the launch Norma went down near the Heads a short time ago, z The premises were owned by Mrs Baxter The insurances are: On the building £l6OO in the Commercial L'nion, and on the contents, Baxter £l5O, Rounthwaite (the occupant of the lower portion) £125, in the State Fire Office.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBTRIB19271129.2.30
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 29 November 1927, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
131SERIES OF MISFORTUNES Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 29 November 1927, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in