DESTROYED BY FIRE.
FARMERS' TRADING CO. STORE
AT ONGARTTE.
NO WATER AVAILABLE.
(By Telegraph.—Press association.) TAUMARUXUT, this day
Last night at 11 o'clock a store and its contents at Ongarue, belonging to the Farmers' Trading Company, and worth £8000, were entirely consumed by fire. There was neither a water supplV nor a fire brigade. The adjoining boardinghouse of Mr. Sims was saved with great difficulty by the use of wet blankets. The origin of the fire is a mrsterv. Possibly it was due to rats chewing matches.
| The amount of the insurances is not available.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1927, Page 12
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