GIRL’S DASH FOR HELP FROM BLAZING INN
A girl’s pluck and presence of mlnd| did much toward minimising thel damage done by lire at the Carpenters’ Aims, Tudeley, near Tonbridge. { ' When Miss Eastwood, the of ;the licensee, awoke with her room/ full -of' smoke, she roused the otherf people .in : the house and fought her.| way through clouds of smoke to th,; bar parlour, which was blazing. /ij Realising that more help would bd| needed, she ran in her nightdress to a neighbouring house and telephoned! ; f OS, the Tonbridge fire brigade. 7||| Farm hands and others checked tha/J fire with pails of water until the brill gade Arrived. The bar'parlour / walj|| almost burnt out.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6667, 21 July 1928, Page 1 (Supplement)
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