FIRE OUTBREAKS
COUNTRY SCHOOL LOST. [PEE PBESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, November 24. Whiteman’s Valley School, Upper Hutt district, was totally destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. An elderly woman, Mrs Allen, mother of the schoolmistress, and her small grand-, son, who were sleeping in the living quarters attached to the school, narrowly escaped death, having to leave by a window, in their night attire. Flames were breaking through the walls when the grandson awakened her. The schoolmistress was away at the time, in hospital.
MASTERTON STORE DESTROYED
MASTERTON, November 24
A spectacular fire occurred in Masterton to-night when a large twostorey building, standing behind the shop of Scouller and Coy’s, furniture warehouse in Queen Street, and used by the firm for storage and packing purposes, was discovered to be a seething mass of flames. The discov ery was made by brigadesmen from' the Fire Station, which is adjacent. The whole of the interior of the building was a roaring inferno when the brigade tackled the outbreak, but within half an hour it was under control. The brigade prevented the flames from spreading into an adjoining building on the south side, partly occupied by T. Wagg, garage proprietor, and W. G. Perry, gramophone dealer.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 November 1930, Page 2
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