FIRE AT CAMBRIDGE

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 306, 23 December 1912, Page 7

FIRE AT CAMBRIDGE

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTTST i COLLEGE. * (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent) CAMBRIDGE, this day. The Seventh Day Advetttist College at Pukekura was totally destroyed by tire at one o'clock this morning. It consisted of a large timber building of three and four storeys, containing 52 rooms, erected in 1906. The situation not proving suitable, it was sold several months a<--o to Nickle Bros for about £3,000. j Possession was to have been taken on t the Ist of the New Year. Meantime a t new college is being erected at Longburn, a near Palmerston North. Most of the c pupils had left, but four young men v were remaining behind with the principal r. (Mr. Mills) to attend the final removal i of furniture, etc. The building was in- s sured in the Standard and Marine for a £2 000, and in the London. Liverpool and s Globe' for £400, the policy having been n taken out by NTckle Bros, since the pur- c chase. The furnituxe was insured in the t Xew Zealaind Company for £614, but t most of it had been removed. The in- y habitants all slept on the ground floor, I' and escaped. If the building had been n fully occupied there would probably have been loss of life. The fire had. a firm 8 hold when discovered, and no account can s be jriven as to the cause. ° s