DAMAGE BY FIRE
GIRLS' HOSTEL IN WELLINGTON (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. A two-storey -wooden building used as a cafeteria and lounge at the Girls' Hostel, in Hawkins Street, Woburn, was seriously damaged by fire early this morning. Girls sleeping in adjacent dormitories were not awakened by the fire until it had a good hold and they and others summoned the Lower Hutt brigade at 2.12 a.m. When the brigade arrived the roof had already fallen in. Fanned by a northerly breeze the flames endangered other wooden buildings in the hostel group. The brigadesmen concentrated on saving the kitchen end of the burning building and preventing the fire from spreading from the other end to a dormitory building about 15 feet away. In this they were successful. The kitchen section was little damaged. About 50 girls were sleeping in the building nearest the one on fire and altogether there were about 300 at the hostel. They made an orderly withdrawal from the dormitories, most of them in their night attire.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 41, 18 February 1944, Page 6
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