WELL-KNOWN HOME DESTROYED
FIRE IN HAWKE’S BAY PROPERTY ( <e (P.A.) HASTINGS, March 12. Damage estimated at between £20,000 and £30,000 was caused when Miss Elsie Williams’s 22-roomed Frimley house was destroyed by fire on Friday might. The house and contents were insured for £BSOO. The Frimley homestead was built in 1867 by Mr J. N. Williams, one of Hawkes Bay’s earliest settlers. Additions were made in the seventies and again in the eighties. Antique furniture and a century-old collection of irreplaceable Maori curios were lost, but four lorry-loads of contents were salvaged before the fire took a firm hold. The house stood_in a magnificent setting of trees, most of which escaped the fire. Some of them, including the giant sequoia and magnolia, were among the oldest and largest exotic trees in New Zealand.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 126, 13 March 1950, Page 4
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