BURNT TO DEATH
TWO CHILDREN IN WORKMAN'S HOUSE. TRAGEDY AT HAAST PASS. ißy Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, April 25. Two children aged 10 months and two years, children of Mr and Mrs H. J. Guildford, of a Public Works camp on the Haast Pass Road, were burnt to death on Thursday evening. Mr and Mrs Guildford left the house to pay a short visit to the camp cookshop. At the time the two children were sleeping in the house, and everything appeared to be in order. Shortly after their departure a workman discovered the house to be on fire, but it was burning so fiercely that he was unable to enter. The charred remains of the two children were later recovered.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1941, Page 2
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