NARROW ESCAPE
ELDERLY WOMAN SAVED FROM BURNING HOUSE. BUILDING PRACTICALLY DESTROYED. (By Telegraph--Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. When fire practically destroyed her home at 31 Conference Street, at 3.30 this morning, Mrs Ellen Jane Hickland, aged 76. was aroused and rescued by neighbours just in time to avoid death by suffocation. The fire started in the rear of a sixroomed house. Mrs Hickland occupied the front two rooms, while those at the back were tenanted by Mr Williams and his housekeeper, Mrs Edna Anderson, who escaped without difficulty. Spreading rapidly through the dry, old building, the flames had a fierce hold. A neighbour, Mr Sandford, dashed into Mrs Hickland’s room and dragged her out of the smoke-filled room just before the brigade arrived. The house was destroyed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1939, Page 4
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127NARROW ESCAPE Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1939, Page 4
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