LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1924, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Messrs l’amment and Bergamini will have ears running to the dance at lairea Hall, Arithtira, on Tuesday, leaving the garage at 7.d1l n.m.

There was a narrow escape of a serious lire in the premises of .Messrs Mcl.co.l and Smith, Hamilton street, at an early liolir this morning. Siiioht finding "its way upstairs into the bedroom where Mrs Smith was. she made her wav down stairs, and lound that an electric iron had caused the outbreak of lire. The table on which the iron stood had burnt through, and the iron tilted over, was about to h' ll 1,1 the ground when the danger was discovered. A work basket cf materia being made .... was burnt and tin Haines had attacked the Hour, but ' . the Haines were discovered m time am :l few buckets of water remove.! all dancer. The only explanation as to the cause of the outbreak is that when a door of the room was closed somewhat sharply the previous evening, before the family retired, that the switch «» the electric iron was shaken over sufficiently to give contact. Otherwise the cause is unexplainable, as the non ~U (1 not been used since Saturday afternoon, Sunday and everything was normal h t • The damage done was only small.

The new spring and summer null nerv showing at Schroder’s, comp, sc the latest models in imported tnnuntd millinery and ready-to-wcars presence will he valued and m H e inert ..time we ask your acceptance of our appreciation for -ast fat our . Advt.