BODY FOUND IN ASHES
A LABOURER'S DEATH FARM WHARE RAZED BY FIRE (P. A.) NELSON. Jan. 4. After being given a job by an Uiiiukuri farmer last evening, George Lewis Barry, aged 50, a labourer, retired for the night to the one-roomed whare which was allotted to him as his quarters. Three hours later the building was destroyed by fire and Barry was burned to death. About 10.30 a youth named Young saw the whare on fire. He thought he heard a dog inside the room, which was burning fiercely, and went away for an axe with the intention of attempting to rescue the animal. When he returned the fire was so fierce that he could not approach it. Barry’s body was found later in the ashes.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26043, 5 January 1946, Page 6
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