RAZED AT MANGERE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 21 March 1939, Page 15

RAZED AT MANGERE

SEVEN-ROOMED HOUSE MOTHER RESCUES BABY (Pin- Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A seven-roomed wooden house .'n McKenzie road, Mangere. owned and occupied by Mr. D. Ferguson and family, was destroyed 'by lire yesterday afternoon. The parents and the family of 10 lost all their personal effect's. The outbreak wla,s discovered by Mrs. Ferguson while she was in the garden attending to the household washing which was drying on the line. Flames were breaking through from the washhouse to the inner rooms when Mrs. Ferguson rushed inside and carried her 14-months-old child from the house. The house was insured for £IOOO a«d the furniture for £250. clover should be assisted with topdressing." Mr. Bates hoped to put down several more subterranean clover trials on hill country this autumn, and turnerang subterranean clover, together with mother white clover,-will be tried out with Tullarook and Mount Barker strains, but time did not permit a large number of trials being laid down. An inspection of plots on the Coast has been made lately by Mr. Bates, who reports that subterranean clover there has not made good progress owing to the dry weather, but where it has been planted should be coming away when rain falls.