TASMANIAN TRAGEDY.
THREE BURNED TO DEATH. United Press Assn.— Elcc. Tel. Copyright. HOBART, June 8Three lives were lost in a fire which destroyed an eighUroomcd weather-board house at Ponlvillc, 17 miles nortli of Hobart, early this morning. Tho victims were William Sidney, aged 84, Emma Sidney, aged 80, and their grand-daughter, Jean Finlayson. Tho fire was noticed by a baker who was going lo work at 2 a.m. Mrs Finlayson escaped with 'three of her children but the others were trapped.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18350, 9 June 1931, Page 7
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81TASMANIAN TRAGEDY. Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18350, 9 June 1931, Page 7
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