A NARROW ESCAPE.
By Telegraph—Press Association. NELSON, August 10. This forenoon a six-roomed house on Waimea Road, owned and occupied by W. Kirby, carrier, ,was completely destroyed by lire, the water pressure being quite inadequate. The caUEe was a kapoc mattrass placed before a fire to dry catching alight. An old bedridden woman, Mrs Batey, Mrs Kirby's mother, was rescued by a neighbour when the room was full of smoke and flame. She had a narrow escape. The insurances weie as follow: £250 on the house in the Imperial Office, £IOO on the furniture and £45 on the piano in the Norwich Union. The losses over the insurance are considerable.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9163, 11 August 1908, Page 6
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110A NARROW ESCAPE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9163, 11 August 1908, Page 6
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