DISASTROUS FIRE.
LARGE GARAGE GUTTED. MANY MOTOR-CARS DESTROYED. (Per Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, March 6. A disastrous lire broke out in the Ford Motor Company’s largo garage in Rangitikei and Cuba Streets this evening. Although the front portion of the building was not seriously damaged, the large rear garages and workshops were gutted. The fire was most spectacular. A sensation was caused by a loud explosion of the gas uxy-acetone welding plant, the container and windows in the vicinity being broken. Seven new and 27 second-hand cars were destroyed, also a number of others garaged for different owners. Mr J. Reid, a garage worker, who discovered the outbreak, was very badly burned on the left hand. , The water pressure was only 501 b, and later dropped to 2611> at midnight, when the blaze was completely under control.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 124, 7 March 1930, Page 4
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