FATAL FIRE.—One life was lost in a fire which swept a section of Lloyd's Hotel, Wellington, from ground floor to roof early on Saturday morning. A girl who was sleeping in a topfloor room, the windows of which appear on the right of the top picture, was trapped by the flames. The fire is thought to have started in a disused service hatchway above the hotwater furnace in the kitchen, shown in the lower picture.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 118, 12 February 1940, Page 7
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75FATAL FIRE.—One life was lost in a fire which swept a section of Lloyd's Hotel, Wellington, from ground floor to roof early on Saturday morning. A girl who was sleeping in a topfloor room, the windows of which appear on the right of the top picture, was trapped by the flames. The fire is thought to have started in a disused service hatchway above the hotwater furnace in the kitchen, shown in the lower picture. Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 118, 12 February 1940, Page 7
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