LANDMARK BURNED.
FORTY-ROOM ED HOMESTEAD. CHEVIOT ESTATE BLAZE. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) CHRISTOHURCH, Monday. The old homestead at the Cheviot Estate, which was of more than 40 rooms, and was a landmark in the dis-, trict, was destroyed by lire this moi nin^. The house was unoccupied. At 5.30 a teamster, who was lying awake in his quarters in the manager's house, noticed a glow as of fire arK J aroused the occupants. The homestead was already burning fiercely and nothing could be done to save it. Arrangements had recently -been made to pull down the house for the timber, which was all heart of totara and heart of kauri in good preservation, and the work of demolition should have begun to-day. > The house, which was the property of the estate of the late Mr. J. Connolly, formerly M.P. for Mid-Canterbury, was insured for £2000 with the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 65, 17 March 1936, Page 12
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