ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
DEATH FROM BURNS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) TAUMARUNUI, Monday. Miss Rata Goodsir, aged 22 years, daughter of Mr A. J. Goodsir, a farmer, met with an accident on Saturday night which ended fatally. She returned from a holiday in Hamilton on Saturday and attended the pictures. As her parents are living a few miles out she went to stay with friends in town. At eleven o’clock the family were in bed and the first heard was the girl rushing into the bedroom in flames and screaming. She then ran to a tap •n the kitchen. Her friends followed and extinguished the flames, but she was badly burned from the waist to, the neck. She was admitted to the. hospital at midnight but died early this morning. Deceased* stated that she was cleaning a pair of gloves with benzine near a lighted candle.
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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14261, 12 January 1920, Page 5
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