FIRE ON OIL TANKER
RUSH TO RESCUE CHILDREN. MOTHERS AFFECTED BY FUMES. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, February 25. The revised estimate of the damage to the British Honour places the amount between £40,000 and £50,000. Frantic mothers rushed into the schoolhouse at Wickham at the height of the blaze to rescue their children, and were affected by petrol fumes and terror. Many of them fainted.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20961, 26 February 1930, Page 9
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