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FAMILY'S NARROW ESCAPE . SOUNDS OF BABY CHOKING ROUSE PARENTS (fiIESS ASSOCIATION TELEG&AM.) AUCKLAND, November 29. Sounds of their baby choking awakened Mr A. P. Chambers and his wife, residents of Henderson, at 4 o'clock this morning. They discovered that the house v.-as in flames, and at the risk of his life the father rushed in from the sunporch and snatched the child from its cot in thu burning bedroom. He was burned himself, but •ihe child was uninjured. A dog in the sunporch had not awakened to give the alarm. The couple saved only a camp stretcher and a bed from the house, in which they had been living for only six months. SCRUB FIRE AT NEW BRIGHTON The New Brighton Volunteer Fire Brigade received a call at 7.10 p.m. yesterday to a fairly extensive scrub fire at South Brighton. The outbreak was in a piece of land lying be- I tween Pine avenue and the foreshore, and well covered with lupins, gorse, and coarse grass. The brigade's promptness averted the danger to many surrounding properties, as a fresh wind was fanning the flames, and the undergrowth was burning readily.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21335, 30 November 1934, Page 16
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