BLAZE -AT WAIUKU.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 90, 18 April 1927, Page 3

BLAZE -AT WAIUKU.

THREE SHOPS GUTTED, j VALUABLE PROPERTY AND STOCK DESTROYED. KXTKXSIVK DA.MAt.K. j A (liMir-timin fnc (K-i-urivil ;it Waiukii i early yesterday ihrev -hop, in j Queen street licin» tmiin-l mil iiud I damage amounting t.> m«vi-ihl ihuiisimb I of pounds being <l"in\ Tim fire started in an nld wooden -hop.' owned by .Mr. <;. Stone. <.f I)..minion! Roatl. Auckland, ami oeviipied by Miss] Maurice (milliner) and Mrs. Maurice (music teacher). The alarm whs given by some yacht-men who were spending the Ktixtcr holidays at Wniuku. Owing to there not lieing any water supply the Humes quickly spread to Millers, Ltd.. boot store and the National Trading Company's Mores, all these places boinp completely putted. Hardly | any of the content- wen , snveil. The workshop of .Mr. W. A.lamson's gnrnjje, in How en Street. was also burned, lnit the. larye new -how -rooms, i in which vcic m'mmhl new iai-, were saved. New Property Imperilled. •'iii'f tears were entertained that the block ill nine new shops and olliies. • liinn (.hicen Street into How en Slrwt, owned .-111. I recently elected liV Mr. .1. (iiil.lile. of Wnllniv Street, l'oii -unity, would share the same fate. Itut fortunately, throiiL-h the exertions of a Milling band of hclpeis. thi- was averted, i only minor damage lieing dmie to stock I during removal.

The losses will !><■ hiiivy. e-|«-<-ially in the ia-e (if the N.iii.>u:il Co.. they wen- n<>t unly call \ full stoeks ill eaeh depni lineiit, but the old wooden building- VM-ie delliiili-hed 11 b< HI I iwii years an.l ;i lin<- brick btiildiup tie. led at a ci-t <>l between L'.'UMHI ami £ UltMI. Owing to tin- holiil;i\- particuhir-t <<i Ihe ili«<ui"iiliii-s ciiiild not l>e obtained.' the only one uvnjhible beinp .Ul.'itKi on i Miller-. Ltd.. -tu.-k. li\tuic«, and iiimh i ii.-iv.