ORPHANAGE FIRE
BODY OF BOY FOUND IN RUINS.
(EI TBLEORAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
AUCKLAND, 7th March. The boy Frank Brett, missing since the Takapuna Orphanage fire, is now reported safe;
The charred body, of Ronald Morris, aged nine years, was found this morning in the ruins of St. Joseph's Or-phnn-age. At the inquest the police said the' boy had been an inmate for two years." Splendid rescue work was performed by the staff, and none were to blame for Morris not. being rescued. Ho was sleeping near the origin of the fire, and w.uji apparently overcome by the fumes before the alarm was given. A verdict or accidentally burnt was returned^
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 57, 8 March 1923, Page 11
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109ORPHANAGE FIRE Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 57, 8 March 1923, Page 11
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