LAMP KNOCKED OVER

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 154, 20 September 1927, Page 12

LAMP KNOCKED OVER

POSTMASTER FAINTS AT WORK INCIDENT AT NGONGOTaKa (From Our Ou-n Corre,po,uimiJ HAMILTON. Monday. Fainting while at work Mr t.’ Heedegan, postmaster at Ngon fell knocking over an oil taEFJJfe table. He was rescued in ar | "«* scious state by passers-by who n ~ smoke issuing from the building KaW Mrs Davies was returning home at about 12.10 a m., ;n company with her son. lit. AN. Daties. when they noticed smoke. Mr. Davies went to a wir dow. and saw the whole of the noet" master's table on fire. They Vun* pressed the outbreak, and p'jt xtl' Heedegan in a place of safety u. recovered consciousness about la minutes later.

The chief postmaster of the district Mr. U. H. Boyd, of Hamilton, and Detective .1. H. Sweeney, made a thorough investigation into the circumstances. They were satisfied that an accident had occurred. Soma paysheet vouchers and other replaceable documents had been burned. Paper money, the exact value of which ha, not yet been ascertained, was also destroyed. No structural damage had been done to the building.

Mr. Heedegan is still suffering slightly from shock. He attributes his loss of consciousness to the results of a slight injury received in a motor-car accident some little time ago.