BABY FATALLY BURNED
MAORI CLERGYMAN'S HOME DESTROYED x&sss 4.s®ociasigy rtutsE-tit.) GISBORNE, August 17. EarJ7 this morning the home of the Anglican Maori minister at Tokomaru Isy, the Rev. R. Rangiaho, was octroyed ty f.re, and the minister's mly* child, aged two months, was iainerated. The child was sleeping in a cot in he sitting-room, where a candle bad >cks left alight. It is believed that he wind blew a curtain against the endle. When the minister and liis rife awakened the front room was .blare and the minister was severely .urr.ed in endeavour ins the reach the failti. The 4air.es drcve hici back and the vhole building, containing five rooms, ras destroyed. The minister ana his rife and " the former's ttged father neaped through a window. Toe rer.aLr.s of the child could not be found his ir. erring.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21246, 18 August 1934, Page 16
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