RESCUE MADE BY MOTHER

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29177, 11 April 1960, Page 14

RESCUE MADE BY MOTHER

Children Saved From Fire (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 10. A young mother rescued her three young children from a smoke-filled room in Day street, Newton, this afternoon. A boarder, Mr G. King, saw the fire first in a couch in a front room. He shouted “Fire” and opened the front door. Smoke swept into the front bedroom where Mrs M. A. Hay’s three children, aged two, three, and four, were sleeping in a double bed. Flames were licking the window frame three feet from the bed. “I couldn’t see them through the smoke,” Mrs Hay said,/ “I just felt for them. I bundled the three of them up in my arms and ran. How I got through the door, I don’t know.” Mrs Hay is in partnership making children’s clothes in the city and at home. Her sewing machine was saved, and later she sat down to make some clothes for her children to change into. “Thank God my babies are safe, that’s all I care,” she said, as she wandered through the charred, dripping wreckage of the front of the house. The rest of the building suffered minor damage. Neighbours took the children home for a meal.