GALE FANS FIRE
Occupants Escape From Burning. House VERY LITTLE SAVED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, March 23. Awakened by the crackling of flames, the occupants of a house at Stanley .Point Road escaped from their burning home in their night attire at the height of a gale last night. Practically nothing was saved. The four occupants of the house— Mr, R. L. Cleland, the owner; a married daughter, Mrs. A. R'. Cleland Pottie; Miss Doris Cleland, and Mrs. Cleland Pottie’s seven-year-old daughter—escaped when the house was a sea of flames and had time to take with them only a few personal effects. Mrs. Cleland Pottie intended leaving Wellington by the Rangitikl for England to-morroW, and her luggage had already been sent to Wellington.
The house was Insured tor £l5OO in Lloyd’s Office and the contents for £550 in the Norwich. Union Office.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 153, 24 March 1932, Page 8
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