FIRE IN WHATAUPOKO.
SIX-ROOMED HOUSE DESTROYED. About five minutes to 3 o’clock this* morning an alarm was rung,by the firehell, the caust* being a fire in a sixroomed cottage in Stout street, Whataupoko, near the footbridge. This house was owned by Mr Thos. Andrews, and occupied by a family named Dixon. The fire was discovered .by Mr Morgan, junior, lamplighter, who saw smoke coming from the back of the house. He went into tho house and heard a woman screaming. He found Mrs Dixon and two children in the bedroom, and helped them to get otU, only just in time, for tho smoke was suffocating. The fire,, -which had started in the kitchen, had obtained such a ho’d when discovered, that neither the house nor its contents could be saved., The Fire Brigade were promptly on the scene, but, for th<~ rcason aforesaid, could do nothing to. save tho building.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2479, 19 April 1909, Page 4
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150FIRE IN WHATAUPOKO. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2479, 19 April 1909, Page 4
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