FIRES.
(By Telegraph.—Press AUCKLAND, March 26. A fire early this morning- destroyed .-an eight-roomed apartment house in ..James Street, owned by Mrs Hull, and • occupied by Mrs North. Eight people were asleep in the old wooden building. Mrs North found flames leaping from the linen-press under the staircase. She hastened to wake the other inmates, while her son got through a window to give the alarm. Two women escaped from the front bedroom of the second storey in their night attire, lowering themselves down by a sheet .and falling several feet. One of them, Ethel Beatty, had an ankle ricked - through the sheet breaking. Mrs Kelsall was slightly burned on one ear, .and her hair was also burned.
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Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17386, 26 March 1928, Page 5
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