BACH COLLAPSES AT AUCKLAND
Girl Drags Mother To Safety (New Zealana Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 25. Shortly after 4 p.m. today, Mrs E Senior was resting in her singleroomed bach at the rear of a house at 12 Hayden street, when her 15-year-old daughter. Sonia, rushed in and screamed that the building was collapsing. w The girl seized her mother by the hand and dragged her from the room as the little house toppled practically on to its side with a crash that brought neighbours running. Shortly after the accident Soma described what happened. “I was sitting on the front step cleaning my I shoes when a heard a sort of crackI ing ” she said. “I went round to the 'back but couldn’t see anything, so I I went on cleaning my shoes. Then I heard a worse noise, and realising the house was going I ran in to get my mother.” . . , ~ Mrs Senior, who has occupied the bach for three years, explained that she is hard of hearing and did not receive any warning daughter came in. She said she had had an application in for a State house for over 12 months. She had also approached the city council for a council flat.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28160, 26 December 1956, Page 5
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