A NIGHT OF HORROR.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 March 1925, Page 3

A NIGHT OF HORROR.

taraweua eruption recalled. AUCKLAND, March 6. A lady w ho went through an almost unprecedented experience duxixxg the uiuht uf. the Tarawera eruption died this morning at Herne Bay, aged tC years. Stic was Mrs Amelia Jane Haszard, who was born at Prince Edward Island and came to. New Zealand with her parents in xxj the bri"- Prince Edward. -Mis Hiaszaid ' married her cousin, the late Mr Charles Albert Haszard, who was at one time a compositor on the Southern Grogs newspaper, and afterwards was farming alnd storekeeping, at Bombay In 1886 Mr Haszard was teacher'of the native school at the nine the village of Wanna was buried as a result Qf the eruption of Mount icM- " Mr Haszard and three of the children lost their lives on that awlu night, Mrs Haszard and two dauhters escaping. The ejecta from wera buried the village, and thc i of Mr Haszard’s house fell..m, P lll^ 1 ° Mrs Haszard by the arm. hvo dan- | Miters who were with her laanagca to get unit of a window and took i -- fuge in a neighbour's l s ’

Mrs Haszard sat in the all night, but was rescued the d Deceased is survived by (or, Mrs luu Hobbs, ol Dapakuia. also bv two brothers. Messrs A. • 11JJ zard, of, Hamilton, and fe- \ JYYw of Auckland, also a. sistei, Ml Murray. The wife ot .lanis is a. niece of deceased, Y U r . r iuHUnlocc is Mrs Watson Arrej, of Uon era.

o very one with a satisfied feeling ol huvig removed the last reman US obscurity. If those wll r ° .hom what wish to know anything I ~e l they are doing, really w. smiwstw anywhere, it might be iliat they move a motion that a do tailed report, with date, be laid on the l abk- ~B ul * ol it be considcrac to do nI S O -' .J?* 1 *. 1 ,,} better to let the age-old calm • brood over Borough affairs in Levm. Let councillors picK their way hlo\ l y and restfully through a maze ot uncertainty, certainly, but k , aC | S pleasant maze, where the staik facts of life intrude not. Everything is favour of this suggestion— precedent, placidity, and Perhaps?-prOgicss. “Let steeping dogs lie as an adage, and who are wc that - should know letter—or more—than our predecessors?