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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 45, 21 August 1925, Page 5

The presence of mind of a young girl at the Hutt on Tuesday probably saved her mother from being burned to death. While attending to her work her mother suddenly fainted and fell againft the stove. "Her clothes were quickly in flames. The girl, noticing her mother's predicament, ' immediately rushed outside the house and secured a sack, with which she smothered the flames, hut not before the unfortunate woman's arms and body had been badly burned. ■ A tramway " waiting shed is to he erected at the corner of Monorgan road and Broadway, Minimal", on ground owned by the Board of Governors of Scots College. The Corporation will undertake to remove the shed on receipt of three months' notice. A letter of thanks is to bn sent to the 'Washington Zoological Society' for the presentation of ' alligators, one opossum, twelve turtles, and a bob-cat or lynx to the Newtown. Zoo. The City Engineer was last evening instructed by the council to proceed immediately with the work of erecting a concrete'wall at the lihandallah Baths ni an atimated cajt of aieui £20 r