MAN BURNED TO DEATH
Fire In Maori
Meeting House
(New Zeeland Press XmOsiiw; NEW PLYMOUTH. Auguxt 36 An elderly men was burned to death when the meeting house at Parihaps pa, near Pun«aiwhu. was destroyed by fire tenlgtit He was:—
George Kahni Poke! Arts*, aged
Mr Aitua was sleeping in the meeting house when the fire broke out at 6.15 p.m. The fire was first noticed by Mr B. Phillip, a Ministry of Works employee living in the pa. Mr Phillips and five others tried to get into the meeting house, but they were driven beck by the smoke. The Rshotu Volunteer Fire Brigade, hampered by leek of water, had no chanee of eon frilling the fire, but saved the nearby house of Mrs M. Skipper by playing water on the roof. When the Cape Egmont Dairy Company sent out a water tanker at 8.45 p.m. all that was -left of the meeting house were the stone foundations, some iron railings, and five brick chimneys standing up among the glowing remains. The meeting house was built in 1890.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29293, 26 August 1960, Page 12
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