BOY’S CLOTHES AFIRE
Brother Extinguishes Flames Br Telegraph—Dress Association. AUCKLAND, January 26. When Ivor James Lawson, aged eight, ran home screaming with his clothes ablaze from contact with a grass fire in Kingsland, his elder brother, Alan, member of the Wesley boy scout troop, seized a blanket, wrapped it round his brother, and rolled him over and over, extinguishing the flames. Both boys were admitted to hospital severely burnt, James in a serious condition, but improving. Alan later returned home.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 105, 27 January 1939, Page 13
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80BOY’S CLOTHES AFIRE Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 105, 27 January 1939, Page 13
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