FARMHOUSE DESTROYED
FIRE NEAR TAIRUA SETTLERS’ DIFFICULTIES frun Our Ou:n Correspondent THAMES, Today. Four miles from Tairua Mercury Bav with the nearest neighbour o\ei a. mile away, live the Hutchison hi cithers and their families. \ week ago, while the husbands were away at Hikuai. the house caught fire at ten o’clock at night. The women, with their two children, escaped in their night attire. The glare attracted the attention of Messrs, r isher, Rangi and Phelan, of Tairua, who set out by boat and on foot to cover the intervening four miles. They arrived when the house was completely burned and met Mrs. E. Hutchison and child and Mrs. M. Hutchison and baby all in scantv attire, tramping to the residence of Mr. Shepherd. There was only a small insurance on the house and furniture.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 811, 4 November 1929, Page 11
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