WAITARA HOME DESTROYED
STARTLING SPREAD OF FLAMES. Another fire occurred at Waitara last night. Mr. Clifford Tanner’s six-roomed residence was completely gutted and nothing. of-value was saved, states the News correspondent. Mr. Tanner was working in the kitchen and chatting with a neighbour just before ten o’clock when they heard a crash in the front of the house. Thinking a picture had fallen Mr. Tanner went to the front and discovered the house was ablaze. He had only time to rescue two children sleeping in a front room and one in a back room before the whole place was in flames. The house was insured for £4OO in the Standard Office and the. contents for £l5O with the Farmers’ Mutual Company. -
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1929, Page 4
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121WAITARA HOME DESTROYED Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1929, Page 4
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