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FIRE IN CHRISTCHURCH ZETLAND HOTEL INVOLVED. SERIOUS DAMAGES INCURRED. (Per Press Association). Christchurch, April 9 With a wall of flame blocking the staircase, Mr. W. G. Duggan, middleaged, had a narrow escape from death when his residence in Cashel street was found to be afire early yesterday morning. He managed to get to the window, and m his night attire he leaped on to a lean-to building and then to the ground. The blaze originated in tho centre of a block of shops on the east side of the Zetland Hotel, and before it was suppressed the centre of the block was gutted and two shops and a residence were seriously damaged The heat became so intense tlNt nil the occupants of the Zetland Hotel had to leave the building, as there was danger of the fire breaking through the windows. All the windows on the east side of the hotel were broken by the heat. The damage is estimated at several hundred pounds.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 99, 9 April 1928, Page 5
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167LEAP FOR LIFE Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 99, 9 April 1928, Page 5
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