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TARANAKI FIRE TRAGEDY.

FUNERAL OF VICTIMS. NO LIGHT UPON OUTBREAK. [BI TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION, J HAWERA, Sundny. No additional facts are available concerning the tragedy which overwhelmed the Woller family early on Friday morning in their lonely cottage at Ararata. The bodies of the victims were brought to town yesterday, and the funeral took place in the afternoon. The cause of the fire is unknown. It is difficult to explain the position of tha father's body in the kitchen, unless, as suggested, he got up to make a cup of tea, as was his custom. The kitchen stove was encased in an iron chimney. This and a kerosene lamp seem the only likely sources of the outbreak, but all ia 4 matter of conjecture.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19957, 28 May 1928, Page 8

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TARANAKI FIRE TRAGEDY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19957, 28 May 1928, Page 8

TARANAKI FIRE TRAGEDY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19957, 28 May 1928, Page 8