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♦ .— NARROW ESCAPES AT FIRE. [BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION*.] '* WELLINGTON. Tuesday. A restaurant in Manners Street was badly damagd by fire at an early hour this morning. Mr. Ginsberg, bis wife, and a child who occupied a confectionery shop, part of the same building, were sleeping upstairs, and it was some time before they tcould be aroused. They were finally rescued, m a state of half-suffocation, by means of a fire escape. The building was owned by the Martin Kennedy estate, and insured in the Northern Office f<*r £500. Mr. F. Clark, proprietor of the restaurant, had a policy of £600 in the New Zealand Insurance Office.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17267, 17 September 1919, Page 10
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