DWELLING DESTROYED.
NARROW ESCAPE OF TWO CHILDREN. ' £BT XELICBAPH —PBESS ASSOCIATION.] HASTINGS, This Day. A five-roomed house in Lowell-street, owned by J. G. Hill and occupied by Gavin Allan, union secretory, was destroyed by five at 9.35 last evening. Owing to the absence of water supply, the Fire Brigade- was unable to render assistance, and everything was lost. Allan's sons, aged five and eight years, were the only occupants of the house at the time of the outbreak, and they had a narrow escape. A man passing along an adjacent road heard the screams of the children, and running to the burning building, was just in time to effect a rescue. Allan, sen., was attending a New Zealand Labour Party meeting, and his wife was away nursing in the country. There was a £40 insurance on the furniture in the South British and a policy on the house, but particulars of the latter are not available.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 74, 27 March 1912, Page 7
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