ANOTHER FATAL FIRE IN AUCKLAND.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1911, Page 6

ANOTHER FATAL FIRE IN AUCKLAND.

AN OLD MAN SUFFOCATED. NARROW ESCAPE OF A MAORI. fBY TELEGKAPH — PBESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, .This Day. Scotia House, Hobson-etrcet, owned by Mi". Piobertenn, and occupied by Mrs. C. (short and her daughter as a boardinghouse, was destroyed by fire, with the contents, at 3.44 o'clock thus morning. ' The houeo contained fourteen rooms, and there were two boarders, Albert -Morris, aged 72, and a Maori man. The - ni'o ha.d a good hold when discovered. I Airs, and Miss Short escaped from a room on the ground floor uninjured. The fire brigade arrived promptly, but the house was then in flames. Members of the brigade entered the upper rooms at considerable lisic, and found Morris _jm a small upstairs room lying on the --floor quite desA. He was partly 'clothed, and evidently had thrown on some clothing, but was suffocated in attempting t& escape. The Maori escaped by jumping through the glass of the front window and was badly cut, otherwise he was uninjured, but he had a nariow escape. The house and contents Iwere insured.