BLIND BOY'S PLUCK
VALIANT HELP AT FIRE. AIDS BROTHERS AND SISTERS. CARRIES THEM OUT OF DANGER. (Special to "Northern Advocate.*’) GISBORNE, This Day. The story of how a blind boy assisted his sister to remove their younger brothers and sisters from a burning house is related from the East Coast. The owner of the house, Mr Hope Huriwai, and his wife were absent from home at the time of the outbreak, which started in the kitchen and apparently spread with great rapidity. A number of children were sleeping in the front room, and by the time the eldest girl was awakened by the road of the fire the whole house was enveloped. The girl, with great presence of mind, awakened the other children, and with the help of her blind brother carried the little ones out of danger.
The house was completely destroyed, and although the building was insur ed, Air Huriwai is a heavy loser. He is a keen student of ethnology, and many books and papers on the subject were lost.
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Northern Advocate, 17 August 1933, Page 6
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