Housemaids’ Predicament
AUCKLAND, This Day.
Suspended in a lift between the fourth and fifth floors of the Hotel Auckland on Saturday morning, three housemaids received a severe shock when a fire broke out, the lift stopping between the two floors. > : One girl fainted, but the two others screamed for help, bringing members of the staff to their assistance'.
The lift gates were opened,. and- the girls wore assisted out on to the landing on the fifth floor.
The fire was suppressed- by the time the brigade arrived. A short circuit in the electrical wiring caused . the outbreak, but little damage was dene.
Browned In Bath.—A Fonsonby resident, Mrs Alice Melinda Chapman, aged 54. was found drowned in a bath in a house at Ctahuhu yesterday afternoon. She had been on a visit to Iriends and on the return of one of the occupants she was found in the bath, apparently having been dead for some time. An inquest was opened. l
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Northern Advocate, 31 July 1939, Page 3
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