Station home burns
Fire destroyed a farmhouse on • Mesopotamia station, about 45km northwest of Peel Forest in South Canterbury yesterday morning. The station’s manager, Mr Don Prouting, his wife, Helen, and two young children had lived in the house but were unhurt, said Mrs Prouting’s father, Mr M. Hamlin, last even* ing. A gale had been blowing at the station yesterday and this would have helped spread the fire. The family had lost everything they owned, Mr Hamlin said.
Neither the Ashburton nor the Geraldine fire brigades had heard .of the fire yesterday afternoon.
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