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TRAGEDY AVERTED

SLEEPING CHILD SAVED FATHER’S LUCKY VENTURE GIS BUR NE, yesterday. Though temporarily homeless as the result oif a fire which destroyed their resilience at Pulnii early on Saturday morning, Mr. and Mrs. Nolle Tu, well-known native residents of the Piilni district, are able to regard themselves as fortunate- But for the merest chance, one of their children, a 10-year-old girl, would have perish- • ed in tho flames.

Housed by the crackling of the flames, Mr. and Mrs. Tu found the kitchen blazing, and in short order they sent the members of their family into the open. air. There were six of their children sleeping at home, and a quick count of heads scorned to account for all of them. The father then turned his attention to> salvage, and as the flames were not then showing in the principal bedroom, he decided to make an effort to save some of his and his wife’s personal effects. Entering the house, lie struggled through heavy smoke to: the wardrobe door, hut as he opened it. flames burst out into the room, having broken through the wall ugainst which the wardrobe was built. Abandoning; the search for defiling, the father hastily grabbed for betiding. and found otic of his daughters, wrapped snugly in a. bundle of blankets, fast asleep. He picked her up and, tossed lior through a div ../ after her as the whole rot ../Burst- in-' to flames. AVithin a minute the whole building was completely given up to the fire.

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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 116, 30 November 1938, Page 2

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TRAGEDY AVERTED Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 116, 30 November 1938, Page 2

TRAGEDY AVERTED Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 116, 30 November 1938, Page 2

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