BLAZE AT PURIRI.
RESIDENCE DESTROYED.
MR. W. R. B. MITCHELL'S LOSS,
SMALL INSURANCE. About 2/15 this morning Mr. W. R. B. Mitchell, of Puriri, was awakened by a falling picture, and on going out to tho kitchen found the room in flames. He aroused his son, who was sleeping in an adjacent room, and between them only just had time to take a few drawers out of the chest of drawers in the bedroom and the mattresß from the bee
By this time the whole building, a residence of eight room, was a raging furnace. As there was only a small domestic water supply, the building was soon dos^royed. To-day the brick chimneys are the only remains of the building standing. Mrs. Mitchell is in Braemar Hospital, and both Mr. Mitchell and his son this morning only had the clothes they stood up in.
The building was insured for £350, the furniture, piano and wireless for £225. Both Mr. and Mr«. Mitchell arc heavy losers.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 30 July 1937, Page 2
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