ANOTHER SERIOUS FIRE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1014, 16 November 1917, Page 6

ANOTHER SERIOUS FIRE.

AUCKLAND WAREHOUSE SUFFERS.

EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO STOCK

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 16,

A lire broke out on the top floor of Messrs L. D. Nathan and (..Wu sevenstorey warehouse and store, in High street about one o'clock this morning. When first observed, the flames had a strong hold, and the fire must have been in progress for romo time..

Owing to it.fi situation, practically in the centre of a dense block of buildings, the burning structure, was very difficult of access. The lire brigade attacked it from three sides, and the preliminary operations occupied nearly half an hour. _ In. the meantime the fire blazed fiercely in-ide the entiro length or the top storey and uelorHoug had burnt, its way through the look Gradually the firemen began to get their task in ha-mi, and by two o’clock the, outbreak was well under control. Hall an hourlaier the. lire was completely .extinguished. T luff,■tines did not find their way down through iduv. fit-out wooden Hour. Verv little damage was done by the lire, but the stock,.' valued at many thousands of pounds, suffered extensively from water. 'I he. building and stocky were insured for a considerable sum in various offices.

ORIGIN A MYSTERY. INSURANCE LIST. LATER. The damage done bv the file at Nil*mm s was very heavy, but it is impossible to form any etinuite, the whole of the stock in the lower floors being' soaked with water. The stock includes a- large quantity ot per ishablo goods. ~ , rnn 'Die. insurances are : —■ ,’inkhng £22,500, stock £55,000. plain. £1245; tot-1 £78,746, all in tile United Offh'e.

The. (ire originated in tin- bottling mid packing department on the top Hour. Ihe origin is u mystery.