DAMAGE BY FIRE.
OUTBREAK IN MATCH FACTORY. •‘T ~ ' - (PIA-:) -.WELLINGTON, March 24, -i When a workman was cleaning . machinery underneath a conveyor belt f; carrying matches in the factory of Bryant and May. Bell and Company, Ltd.,
match manufacture’s Tory street, Wellington, about 5.30 p.m. to-day, some G matches ignited, and a serious fire i- might have oceured had not the k flames been kept in check by a sprinkler alarm system. Three’fire engines n^veres ; quickly on the scene. As they ■sped up ,Tory street, the firemen could . , sec clouds of smoke issuing from the
"Myindows on the first floor. However, on arrival, the brigade’s main task was ’protect stock on the ground floor by L-salvage sheets from damage hv water. • - -The extent of- the damage to the stock go-uld not he ascertained to-night.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 139, 25 March 1941, Page 8
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