NARROW ESCAPE

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3784, 30 July 1932, Page 8

NARROW ESCAPE

EA RLY MORNING FI RE HOUSE AT MT. ED EX GUTTER DISCOVERY BY A SOX (Per Association) Auckland, July 30. Thru > oecupaajts of a five-rcoined house, owned, and oeupied by Mr XI. Riley, at 2. Eninld. Street, Mount Eden, had a narrow escape from being burned to death early in. th© merninp;. Tlic-y were Mrs Filey, her and a niece, Mi« s I*. Martin. Mi's Riley’> son retired to bod at , II o’clock, and his mother and c nisrii a little later. Tile son was awakened by the smell of smoke, and on getting up found the back ol the heuse in liamos and the boose filled with smoke. He immediately summoned the Mount. Eden brigade, who* arrived tcj< find tile house 1 aiming fiercely at t)u» rear portion wa ? gutted a.nd the contents destroyed.