CHILDREN RESCUED
GIRL’S COURAGE WHARE IN FLAMES MAHIA TRAGEDY AVERTED (P.A.) WAIROA, July 22. Awakened by falling bottles, a young girl, Joy Brown, aged 11 years, found the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Barney Brown, Mahia Peninsula, in flames early on Saturday morning. The girl was sleeping with six other children in a whare six feet from the burning building. Joy first took her youngest brother, Andrew, aged 18 months, to safety and then returned and endeavoured to awaken Robert Cracknell. aged nine years, but could not, so she carried him out. The girl then went back to the whare and removed her three brothers, Gavin, aged seven years, Bale, aged five years, and Barney, aged three, and also Sophia Cracknell, aged six, who with her brother, was staying with the Browns. Whilst rescuing the children her night clothes caught fire, but she extinguished the flames. Joy then made the children as comfortable as possible. The nearest neighbour was half a mile away and the parents of the Brown children were absent at a dance at Nuhaka. The house and whare were completely destroyed, and had it not been for the presence of mind of the girl .there would probably have been loss of life.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22079, 22 July 1946, Page 4
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207CHILDREN RESCUED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22079, 22 July 1946, Page 4
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