WELLINGTON FIRE
ESCAPE JN NIGHT ‘ATTIRE. (Per Press Assoclation^-Copyright). : WELLINGTON, June 16. V A spectacular hrey which yesUßed- in .-. the destruction of a two-storey -house g at . No. 1 Coromandel Street, occurred thiij. morning. Five occupants—adults and two children—escaped in £ their night attire. .No A furniture or ; ~ ' personal effects were saved from the building, owing to the rapid progress,;, which the flames had made when the.;, . ' outbreak was discovered. Two canaries and a dog - were, the - only possessions the occupants, Mr and Mr-g Larsen, were able to .take ~wit;h,,-~ them from the burning house.. ■ ' T
Special precautions were taken. to. prevent the Ewart' 'Hospital from catching alight- The patients, only .forty or fifty,, yards' away .from the fire, showed no alarm, and no damage .was done to the hospital building^ ■■ ;.c :y;^r-
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1933, Page 5
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132WELLINGTON FIRE Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1933, Page 5
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