HOUSE DESTROYED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1938, Page 6

HOUSE DESTROYED

ELAZE AT KORO KORO LAST NIGHT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Lighting up the surrounding hillside fire gutted a six-roomed house owned by Mr G. Jones, Maungaraki Road. Koro Koro, late last night. Three rooms were destroyed and others were damaged by smoke and water. The occupants escaped in their night attire. Awakened by Ihe sound of something falling iii the kitchen, a young man in the hoir.e found the kitchen in names and escaped through a window.! He got another elderly man in the house to safety and warned the Pt tone Fire Brigade at 11.15 p.rn. When they arrived on the scene fire men had considerable difficulty in getting to the house, which is some little distance off the road, and 500 feet of hose was used. They took about half an hour to get the fire under control. The cause of the fire, which is though to have started in the kitchen, is not known. The house and contents are insured.’ P. Eastwood, 5 Perry Street, is Chief Agent for General Accident and Fire Assurance Corporation, Ltd. (Inc. in Scotland).*