AWAKENED BY FLAMES
ESCAPE FROM BLAZING HOUSE (Feb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 23. Awakened by the crackling of flames the occupants of a house at Stanley Point road escaped from their burning home in their night attire at the height of a gale last night. Practically nothing was saved. The four occupants of the house—Mr R. L. Cleland. owner; a married daughter, Mrs R. Cleland-Pottie; Miss Doris Cleland, and Mrs Cleland-Pottie’s seven-year-old daughter—escaped when the house was a sea of flames and had time to take with them only a few personal effects. Mrs Cleland-Pottie intended leaving Wellington by the Rangitiki for England tomorrow. Her luggage hal already been sent to Wellington. The house was insured for £ISOO in Lloyds Office, and the contents for £550 in the Norwich Union Office.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21602, 24 March 1932, Page 6
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