"IT'S AN ILL WIND"

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 78, 2 April 1928, Page 10

"IT'S AN ILL WIND"

thieves rob cabs. TRAMS' AND BUSES' HARVEST. Thieves secured big hauls of motor rugs, overcoats, and other valuables from the thousands of cars parked in the vicinity of the fire. The Western reclamation, an area little frequented by the public, proved confusing to many last night, and in some instances car owners searched for hours before they located their vehicles, which had been parked hurriedly and with little thought of the layout of the vicinity. Indeed som» owners failed to find their cars, and had to walk, take a taxi or bus. Bus drivers and taxi owners reaped a harvest, and special trams were crowded for hours.

In their eagerness to gain a near view of the fire people pressed very close to j the blazing oil store, and warnings to keep back were of no avail. Even when it was seen that the walla were cracked and bulging, and that the peril of being burned by an onrush of blazing benzine was not unlikely, curiosity proved too strong. Many women, ruined expensive "hoes, and clothes were torn, in moving about among the piles of scaffolding and woodwork with which the reclamation on the western side of Winstone'a store is littered.