CLOTHING AFIRE.
Per Press Association. HAWERA, Feb. 16. With her clothes ablaze, Mrs C. Chambers, a shopkeeper, ran screaming along High Street this morning and had to be forcibly stopped by neighbouring business people who rushed from their premises to ascertain what had happened. The flames were smothered by Messrs Rav Gee, a Hindu fruiterer, and S. Cleaver, a taxi driver, who received superficial burns on the hands. Mrs Chambers’s story, incoherently told, was that she was lighting a fire in a stove when a gust of wind blew the flames back and her dress caught alight. She rushed to the street in a panic.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 68, 17 February 1939, Page 12
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105CLOTHING AFIRE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 68, 17 February 1939, Page 12
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