DWELLING BURNED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16202, 27 November 1926, Page 6

DWELLING BURNED

OCCUPANTS’ NARROW ESCAPE (Per Press Association.) MAHTOK, this day.

A lire <‘il Marion .1 unction at. 10 o’clock last night dostroved a dwelling occupied by J. \V. Neale, a .Borough Coun.'d empioyee. Tho husband was absent at tuc time, and the mother and throe children wore asleep. A young girl awoke and found tho house in Humes. She a rolled her mother and the others, who made a hasty exit, saving nothing. Their escape was very fortunate. Only the shell of tho house remains. The brigade smartly saved two bouses ad-

joining. The contents of Seale’s house were insured in the Commercial office for The building was owned by the Borough Council, and insured in the State Office for £SOO. While the brigade was id: Neale’s an outbreak was discovered in an empty chop in lhe main thoroughfare of .Marton. When the brigade arrived at the latter place the ilnmes had been subdued bv residents. The circumstances of the latter tire wore very suspicious. The shop had been -miused' for some time, and only slight- damage was done. OUTBREAKS AT PALMERSTON

PALMERSTON X., this clay. The lire brigade was called out to minor outbreaks oi tiro between 9.15 o’clock last night and 1.20 o’clock this morning, making the total this month of 15 tires. The total damage was nutgreat. The number this month equals the total for September, October, and November, last year.