A FATAL FIRE.
MAN FOUND SUFFOCATED. WELLINGTON HOTEL DAMAGED. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A fire broke out in the Gresham Hotel, Lambton Quay, shortly. after 11.15 this morning. A boarder in the hotel named Cameron, who went back to get his money, was suffocated. He was found in one of the passages on the second flood, with only his singlet which suggests that he was in bed when the fire started. The fire, which is thought to have started at the back of the building, did considerable damage before it was extinguished. It is believed that Mr Cameron arrived by the ferry boat from the bouth to-day.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 260, 16 August 1930, Page 5
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109A FATAL FIRE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 260, 16 August 1930, Page 5
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