THE SCENE OF TWO TERRIBLE TRAGEDIES IN AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 8, 22 February 1911, Page 18

THE SCENE OF TWO TERRIBLE TRAGEDIES IN AUCKLAND.

The main picture shows the front view of the boarding-house in llobson-street destroyed by tire on Saturday morning. At the top is a back view of the building: the window marked with a cross being the room occupied by the old pensioner who was suffocated in the tire.

I-U44, m f i ;i ] p?. - ■ urrod in Amkl; rd. The first broke out on the morning of the I<»th in a shop in Wakefield terrace, Ponsonby-road, occupied by Mr. ■ . • ■ family, and al*o by hi- sister-in law and her husband, Mr and Mrs. 11. Mounttield. The Inmates ‘ • • - ij* »f \-r.r ~hh r• f. ald h line red hot. Two of Mr. I ’oil eons* children, aged five and seven, collapsed on the roof and were ■ the other inn ed more or less serious injury. Following close upon this dreadful occ ure nee, - 14 Kirdlng oimm Hobs ui-atreet, the victim on this occasion being a crippled old age pensioner named Albert Norris, who was sufTo'-a ted in his room The other three inmates of the house escaped practically unhurt.