FIRE AT MOUTOA.
At about 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, a tour-roomed cottage at Moutoa, owned and occupied by Mr D. Prentice, was totally destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire is a mystery. It appears that at the time of the outbreak, Mrs Prentice was in the kitchen peeling potatoes, when her son, aged ten, drew her attention to the smell of smoke. She opened the door of the passage, and found that the front rooms were a mass of fire. She immediately got the children safely outside, but was unable to again enter the house owing to the heat and smoke. Everything was lost, all that was saved being what Mrs Prentice and the children were wearing at the time.
The building was insured for and the furniture for both in the State Office.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1332, 3 December 1914, Page 2
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137FIRE AT MOUTOA. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1332, 3 December 1914, Page 2
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