LARGE HOUSE GUTTED
BLAZE iN AUCKLAND .• ■ J. 4 * 9 » -.V. OCCUPANT’S NARROW ESCAPE . .. \ t ■ - • .", l. (Per Press Association.) ' ■ last night. Awakening,.,to find himself Choking in.’ibiack smoke, Mr. R.. G. ll(linger, living at Arncy road,-Rcmuera, had a narrow escape from death .early this morning." Half suffocated 1 and with , the fcraikJe of .burning timbers >in : his ears, he.managed to reach the ground by'..means' of >the .fire; escape. There wjurnbono else in the. house at'Uie ..time;.. > t :i The was hadly gutted, the t6p Btoroy] thing dQstfbycd and tho rear portion-, of the dower floor 'extensively damaged.', .• ~ 'the-smoke,
,Mr...Raingor:miasQd'ihis.,f,Qoti,ng. whpn near the bottom of -the escape, and ffcll Sit. Ho .’the! ground', '.‘With’ tlnj wind knocked out of him', it was several mmutes ’befdre ; he'was' able to pick 'himself up, and give the alarm by telephone from a neighboring house. < Tho house was a 10-roomcd one and wae insured for £2150 with the North Rritish and Mercantile Irisurartcc Co., Ltd..' There was a cover of' between £4.00 and i £500! on the cont,cuts. /A •number of. valuable sporting', ’trophies rvVOre destroyed.' : ■
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17606, 23 October 1931, Page 7
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179LARGE HOUSE GUTTED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17606, 23 October 1931, Page 7
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