FIRE AT WANGANUI.
By Telegraph— Press Association. WANGANUI, November 3. % At an early hour this morning a fire broke out in a boardinghouse in Wickstead Place, an old structure of fifteen or twenty rooms. The fire was confined, ny the efforts of the brigade, to the end of the building. Ten boardera escaped with meagre clothing. One elderly man jumped out of an upstairs window, sustaining several cuts and bruises, and straining a leg, snd with his hair singed. The owner of the buildings is J. D. 'M'Beth, and it is occupied by Mrs Smith. The building was insured for £175, and the furniture for £3OO, the latter in the Queensland office.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9640, 4 November 1909, Page 5
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112FIRE AT WANGANUI. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9640, 4 November 1909, Page 5
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