FIRE AT AUCKLAND.
TWO' WOMEN HAVE NARROW. ESCAPE. rby telegraph—press association.! AUCKLAND, March 26. A fire early this morning destroyed an eight-roomed apartment house in James Street, owned by Mrs. Hull and occupied by Mrs. North. Ekglit. people were asleep on the premises, which was an old wooden building. Mrs. North, found flames leaping from the linen press under the staircase. She hastened to waken the other inmates, while her son got through a window to give the alarm. Two women escaped from the front bedroom on the second storey in their night attire, lowering themselves down bv a sheet and falling several feet. One of them, Ethel Beatty, had an ankle ricked through the sheet breaking. Mrs. Ivelsall was slightly burned, one ear and her hair being slightly burnt.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 March 1928, Page 9
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