ANOTHER FATAL FIRE IN AUCKLAND.
HOBSON-STREET BOARDING
HOUSE
OLD MAN ASPHYXIATED.
AUCKLAND, Feb. 18
Scotia House, Hobson-street, owned by Mr Robertson and occupied by Mrs 0. Short and her daughter as a boarding-house was destroyed by fire, with its contents, at 3.45 this morning. The house contained fourteen rooms, and there were two boarders—Albert. Morris, aged 72, and a Maori man.
The fire had a good hold when it was discovered.
Mrs and Miss Morris escaped from a room on the ground floor, uninjured.
The fire brigade arrived promptly, and though the house was in flames, the members of the brigade entered the upper rodms at 'considerable risk.
They found Morris in a small upstairs room, lying on the floor, quite dead.
He was partly clothed, and evidently had thrown on some clothing and been suffocated when attempting to escape. The Maori escaped by jumping through the glass of a front window. He was badly cut, but otherwise uninjured. He had a narrow escape.
The house and contents were insured.
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Northern Advocate, 18 February 1911, Page 5
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170ANOTHER FATAL FIRE IN AUCKLAND. Northern Advocate, 18 February 1911, Page 5
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