GAS-HEATER TRAGEDY
OTHER VICTIM SUCCUMBS. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 30. The death has occurred in the. Auckland Hospital of Mrs 'Margaret Kimm, aged 78. who with her husband, the late James Kimm, was found unconscious in the sitting-room of their bonne at Mt. Eden on the morning of July 12. They were seated, in front of a. portable gas-heater which was alight and almost white hot'. Kimm had i received terrible burns to his foot, which had slipped into the heater andi he. died on the Saturday evening. . Mrs Kimm had been violently ill and. she was removed to hospital in a serious condition.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 31 July 1930, Page 5
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