PLUCKY RAILWAYMAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 192, 16 August 1927, Page 10

PLUCKY RAILWAYMAN.

aiEFE RISKED THEOUGH ERROR INCIDENT OF A FIRE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent. ) TAIHAPE, Monday. The* pluck shown by a railway worke. jdr. C. porter, during a lire at JAauuv. yesterday is tne tai K of the district. A; house at MataroS, occupied by Ah a. Atcixenzie, caugnt lire early in Uk oiorning,and Mr. and Airs. McKenzK -iaeir; eieyen-year-old daughter, and t yjoung man named Hunt escapeu -urriedly, carrying fheir ciothes in tnei. . Among those who went .to help the aniily was Mr. Porter, a railway workei Jn being told that another daughtei... oi jir. McKenzie was in the house jie rushcu n' and' crawled 'on hands and kneet> -hrough dense volumes of smoke in earck of, the missing girl. A few minuter later somebody called out that there v.-a? ao one in - the house. and he then " madihis escape, with the greatest difficult} Ie was in a state.of collapse when h« ame out. Later he,was informed that ■ nistake Had been made, and that th cirl for whom he risked his life was in North. ..;/.... ~ The house was destroyed, .and it iwner, ; who- is' a' : railway 'ganger a , . ■fataroa, is a heavy; loser.:- ; The -neigfc ours prevented the flames: spreading U jther railway houses* ~; ; .;.: