FIRE AT PONSONBY.
SOME NARROW ESCAPES,
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this dav
A fire occurred in Waitemabi street, I’unsonby, at 1.15 this morning in a three-storey apartment house 'conducted by Mrs. Seddy. It developed into a eonfingrptiun, which, owing to the low water pressure, endangered a. large residential area. The boarding-house was destroyed, four men and three women leaving by a fire escape. One man carried a lady boarder, who had fainted. Twenty boarders lost everything. Tho fire also gutted the residence of Albert Crowe, on one side, and practically destroyed a new house, nearly completed, on tho other side of the boarding-house. Mr. Crowe was insured, the house for £B3O and furniture for £230 in the Sun office.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16607, 10 December 1924, Page 5
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