MEMBER IN FLAMES.
SCENE IN A PARLIAMENT. Capetown, March 23. Ah amazing incident occurred in Parliament this afternoon. Mr. George Brown, the new Labor member for G'erwiiiton, during a debate on the Estimates'. burst into flames. Ho rushed from the Chamber enveloped in smoke, followed by half a dozen members of all parties, who went to tlie rescue. A Labor colleague smothered the (lames, but Brown's hands were scorch-' ed, and his coat and some papers wer» destroyed. Tile origin of the fire is uncertain, but the coat had been cleaned with petrol,, and there was a full box of matches', in' M« of the puoktU. v s
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 April 1920, Page 6
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108MEMBER IN FLAMES. Taranaki Daily News, 9 April 1920, Page 6
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