INJURED IN FIRE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXX, Issue 8496, 1 August 1933, Page 3

INJURED IN FIRE

THREE WOMEN SENT TO HOSPITAL OTHER NARROW ESCAPES DESTRUCTIVE OUTBREAK By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, this day. At tlie Height of the north-easterly gale early yesterday morning a big portion of the residential area of Calliope road, Devonport, was threatened by a fire which destroyed two dwellings and practically gutted a third. The fire endangered the whole block of seven houses between Shoal Bay road and Roslyn Avenue, and three or four of the row of houses on the opposite side of the street. In making their escape from the upper storey of one of the dwellings, two widowed sisters, Mrs Jess Carter and Mrs Mary Cameron, and the latter’s daughter, Mrs Hope Cameron, either fell or jumped from the fire escape and were taken to hospital suffering from injuries and burns. The dwellings destroyed were No. IS, a two-storey structure divided into flats and owned by Miss Ada A. Wharfe; No. 50, a vacant house, owned by Mr H. S. Bates; and No. 52, owned and occupied by Mrs M. Moore. Those living in the three houses destroyed lost practically all their possessions. They escaped in their night attire.