BOX FACTORY DESTROYED.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 306, 26 December 1924, Page 3

BOX FACTORY DESTROYED.

"■ ■ OVER £5000 DAMAGE. Mr. W. CASEY A HEAVY LOSER. t No one knows how it started, as no t one had been on the premises for more 1 than nine hours, but a fire late on W 7 cd- s nesday night demolished the box-making I factory of Mr. W. Casey at the corner ( of Beaumont and Fanshawe Streets, 1 Freeman's Bay. The place was well 1 alight when it was discovered at about ( eleven o'clock, and when the City Fire 1 Brigade arrived promptly in response ] to a call at one minute past eleven they t found both storeys blazing. The factory f was a corrugated iron building, and was I full of wood-working machinery, and a 1 heavy stock of pine timber was carried, t Fortunately there was a good pressure, I of water, and the brigade, working i strenuously, kept the fierce fire to the £ one building, saving the office, which \ was in a detached building. Not far C away from the blaze there are several c benzine stores where thousands of cases I of benzine and other oils are stored, I and if these had caught there would c have been a memorable blaze. The s neighbourhood is still a lonely one s after business hours, and it was some t time before the fire in the box factory was discovered. Had a. fire obtained as firm a hold nearer the benzine stores the results might have been disastrous. Mr. Casey's factory and the machinery were practically destroyed, and the B loss will considerably exceed the £5390 for which they were insured in the Ocean office.