OLD MAN'S ORDEAL
NO HELP AFTER PIHB (Per Press Association.) ASHBUirrON. this day. After being badly burned in a fire at a hut at Westerfiel'd, Thomas Pickering, 76, a single man, lay in a shed, conscious but helpless until he was discovered yesterday afternoon. He stated that he woke on Thursday night to find the hut afire and his clothes burning. He rushed to a nearby water race. He was burnt badly on the arms and head. He was sent to hospital, and his condition is satisfactory.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18582, 17 December 1934, Page 6
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87OLD MAN'S ORDEAL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18582, 17 December 1934, Page 6
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