TRAGIC FIRE
CHILD BURNT TO DEATH ATTEMPT AT RESCUE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS. June 11. To lose their youngest child, their home and its contents in a fire was the tragic experience of Mr and Mrs Peter Nuku, Okawa. near Hastings, early this afternoon. Mrs Nuku went to- visit a neighbour, leaving her three children playing round the house. She saw a column of smoke rising from her home and rushed back to discover her eldest child, aged four, outside and the house in flames. She entered the burning building and rescued one child, aged three, and attempted to return to save the baby, aged 20 months, but was forcibly restrained as the house by this time was enveloped in flames. The house was totally destroyed and the body of the child was recovered from the ruins by the police on their arrival this afternoon.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1939, Page 2
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