SEQUEL TO FINE

WOMAN'S BURNS PROVE

FATAL

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, November 24,

The death has occurred in the Auckland Hospital of Mrs. Egerton Burleigh Cecil, of Epsom, who was admitted on Sunday suffering from shock and extensive burns received in a motor accident at Waiuku on the previous evening.

Mrs. Cecil and' her husband were trapped in a small sedan motor-car which burst into flames after skidding and overturning on loose metal on a rise just outside Waiuku. Both were severely burned before Mr. Cecil succeeded in wrenching open the door of the car and releasing himself a.nd his wife. A pet dog in the. back of tho car was burned to death.

Mrs. Cecil was in a serious condition when admitted to the- hospital, but her husband was not so badly injured.