COUNTRY NEWS.
TAIHA7E. At the ordinary meeting of the Talb.a"pe ■ Borough Council, the electric.il engineer reported raving had to empty the dam to clear iit of silt, alts that pumping operations hs4 i been carried oat wherever the rtrer was ! clear, and that there was five feet o£ water lln the reservoir. The borough enjineer re- . ported every effort was being made to have. ; the sewerag-e tank constructed before the i end of the yoar. A flre ocenrrsd at Horopito abent 4 a.m. jon "Wednesday, when a six-roomed house, '■ shop and hall, the property of Mr. Jame» Freeman, wss burnt to the sroand. The! i premises were occupied by a married man, j j Mr. James Onrtata, who carried on business i as a fruiterer. He and his family were I awakened in the early morning by ttie flre, which had got such a hold that they had^ barely tlma to get out of the house. Mr.! Curtain lost nil his property. The Insurance on the building was £400 in the Northern Ineuratice Office.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 305, 21 December 1912, Page 10
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