TRAGIC FIRE.
CHILD BURNED TO DEATH. HASTINGS, June 11. To lose their youngest child, their home, and its contents in a fire was the tragic experience of Air and Airs Peter Nuku, Okawa, near Hastings, early this afternoon. ATrs Nuku went to visit a neighbour, leaving her three children playing round the house. She saw a column of smoke rising from her home and rushed back to discover her eldestchild, aged four, outside and the house in flames. She entered the burning building and rescued one child, aged three, and attempted to return to save the baby, aged 20 months, but was forcibly restained as tile house by this time was enveloped in flames. The house was totally destroyed and the body of the child was recovered from the ruins bv the police on their arrival this afternoon.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 163, 12 June 1939, Page 6
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138TRAGIC FIRE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 163, 12 June 1939, Page 6
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