CLOTHES ABLAZE
. WOMAN KISHES INTO STREET FL/gMES EXTINGUISHED BY SPECTATORS ( Per Pre=s Association.! HAWERA, Feb. 16. With clothes ablaze Mrs. C. Chambers. shopkeeper, ran screaming along High Street this morning and had to be forcibly stopped by neighbouring business people who rushed from their premises to ascertain what had happened. Th* were smothered by Rava Hindu fruiterer, and S. Cleaver, a taxi-driver, who suffered superficial burns to the hands. Mrs. Chambers’ story, incoherently told, was that she was lighting a fire in a stove when a gust of wind blew the flames back. Her dress caught alight and she rushed to the street in a panic. By the time she reached the Hindu friuterer’s her clothes were burning fiercely and were extinguished by Ravgee and Cleaver, who beat the flames with their hands. She was taken to hospital after medical attention.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 41, 18 February 1939, Page 5
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141CLOTHES ABLAZE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 41, 18 February 1939, Page 5
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