FIRE SENSATION.
WOMAN'S RETREAT CUT OFF.
BOARDINGHOUSE BLAZE.
■TEN , LOSE ' EFFECTS.
(By: {Telegraph.—Press Association.)
PALMERSTON N., this day.
•When'fire caused extensive damage to a large. tworstoreyed wooden boarding- , house in Main Street yesterday afternoon, practically nothing was saved, and the effects: belonging to. ten boarders were- lost. ■ .' ' . One of the. occupants, Mrs. W. Bridges, had a narrow escape. When the alarm was given she made for a room upstairs in order to recover valuable papers belonging to her husband, but before she could escape the flames cut off her retreat. She battled through blinding smoke to a window, where she fainted. Mrs. Bridges was seen by employees of an adjacent plumber, who rescued her. She is now little the worse for the experience. -
The contents of the building were insured for £250 and the building for £1255. ■•'
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 298, 17 December 1930, Page 10
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