A HOUSE BURNT
SOME NARROW ESCAPES, (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.! AUCKLAND. January 9. Seven people were almost trapped in a burning bouse in Wellington Street in the city early this morning, but through great work by firemen all escaped without injury. Mr and Mrs G. K. Browne and their three children aged two, seven, and nine, also Mi and Mrs H. Ik Jackson and a youth. Douglas Grant, were sleeping upstairs in a wooden two storeyed house, "hen a fire was discovered. Jackson and Grant escaped liv using a sheet rope while Browne hurriedly carried the children on to a balcony. The voungost child was salely lowered to the pavement in a blanket hut the mother then fainted and she and the other children were lowered by iiremeii. -lust as they were rescued the flames hurst out of the windows liehind them.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1931, Page 5
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142A HOUSE BURNT Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1931, Page 5
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