WHERE MAN IS IMPOTENT.—Fire which broke out in the oil store of Winstone, Ltd., Freeman'* Bay, just AnTkU*"! °. elo . ck » still raging fiercely in the most spectacular conflagration in the history of of the city's fire-fighting plant. This photograph shows the dense column of flame and smoke which defiantly signalled to residents all over the city «nd suburbs that the contents of the store (half a million gallons of petrol and motor oils) were in its voracious embrace.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 78, 2 April 1928, Page 8
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78WHERE MAN IS IMPOTENT.—Fire which broke out in the oil store of Winstone, Ltd., Freeman'* Bay, just AnTkU*"! °.elo.ck » still raging fiercely in the most spectacular conflagration in the history of of the city's fire-fighting plant. This photograph shows the dense column of flame and smoke which defiantly signalled to residents all over the city «nd suburbs that the contents of the store (half a million gallons of petrol and motor oils) were in its voracious embrace. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 78, 2 April 1928, Page 8
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