Gale Fans Hanse Fire
OCCUPANTS’ NARROW ESCAPE
VERY LITTLE SAVED
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND. March 2 3
Awakened by the crackling of flames, the occupants of a house at Stanley Point Road escaped horn their burning home in their night attire at tlie height of a gale last night. Practically nothing was saved. The four occupants of the house — Mr. R. L. Cleland, the owner; a married daughter, Mrs. A. R. Cleland Pottie; Miss Doris Cleland, and Mrs. Cleland Pottie’s seven-year-old daughter—escaped when the house was a sea of flames and had time to take with them only a few personal effects. Mrs. Cleland Pottie intended leaving 'Wellington by the Rangitiki for England to-morrow, and her luggage had already been sent to Wellington. The house was insured for £l5OO in Lloyd's Office and the contents for £550 in the Norwich Union Office.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 78, 24 March 1932, Page 5
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