ESCAPED JUST IN TIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 27, 2 February 1932, Page 9

ESCAPED JUST IN TIME.

OCCUPANTS Or BURNING HOUSE. BEDROOM PILLED WITH SMOKE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHUIICH, this day. A Christchurch business man, Mr. H. E. Williams, and his wife were almost overcome by smoke in their house at Redcliffs early yesterday morning. When Mrs. Williams was awakened the bedroom was filled with smoke. She roused her husband, and both rushed from the building, reaching the open air just before the house became a mass of flames. . , The Sumner and Redcliffs fire brigades arrived on the scene, but the construction of the $win™ chance. There was f<£f fenced in and-little difficulty was Ke e^ ents , howconfining the tim e, because if ever, spent an *^ e . hea dway a large the blaze W^ ° wou id have been amount of 9&&gfo residences. One caused to ael Sr: u. X g JHorton, was only house, o ,^ n S? ° 7 t he 'burning building. a few W yii a ms had their f urni . Mr : an ,.?d for £2SO, but they wiH be tnre ansined » amoU nt of £i u .