HOUSE GUTTED BY FIRE
MOTHER RESCUES CHILDREN (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 6. couple and their young family lost everything but the clothes §i re u e . arin % Some washing, and fJl n A ets ’ when flre Butted their 5-45 p.m. yesterday. , T T , y ?. re Mr and Mrs Herbert T Mycroft - their Children. Judith, John, and Allen, of 7 Holland □ i n ; a^ed seven weeks, was admitted to the Rotorua Public Hospital. with burns to the body Mrs Mycroft, who was in her back tJ 16 time ’°f the outbreak, ran into the house and struggled through thick smoke to rescue 4he baby. Attracted by the screams of Judith she to the front of the house’ broke a window, and pulled the child clear.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27988, 7 June 1956, Page 14
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