LOSS BY FIRE.
THREE PREMISES DESTROYED. (Per Press Association.) PAHIATUA,. January 18. , A fire at Mangamutu. yesterday afternoon destroyed a box factory, two cottages and the Mangamutu Post Office, all adjacent to one another. The outbreak started in the factory, which, with its ''contents', was totally destroyed. Helpers managed to rescue all the contents from the cottages, - as well as the mails, safe, etc., from the post office, before they were razed. There was no water available. All the buildings were owned by Mr D. Fraser. The full insurances are not available, but the following are known to be in the New Zealand Office:—Box factory and part of the machinery, £495; a five-roomed cottage, £240; a four-roomed cottage £220; a post office of two rooms, d-JIOO..
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 84, 19 January 1928, Page 6
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