FACTORY FIRE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 10

FACTORY FIRE.

DAMAGE TO ;FU9HfM^'J BRIGADES' GOOD SAVE. IMfeige estimate* at .boat £750 was B^!L^rJ^ Mi y afternoon to e furnitii* factory of A. E Taylor, TVr the corner of Dominion Road d New North Road- Tie flame, swept trough the lower floor of the baildinx, bach u an iron one, ana did consider^ MjbJj fandtm* m«t of .whiJTSL ptroyeo. The outbreak, which is believed to S, 1 " 1 *IT • «P*rk from a ht & *** ■*«*«* u> the rear I ?"3t* r fiL r '? hi * «t«ir of tin ? iv-lhiflWi was riven, and igadee from the Central and-Mount Ibert stations arrived promptly on the ene, although the feme* had a fairly rong hold on the, rear of the bifildW ben they arrived. The flames were tinguished by the brigades about a an hour after tneir arrival Id did not spread to the upper floor hich is Hsed as an upholsterv room, e l^ hle dan,a g e w * as done I tHe polished furniture there iSrJS , " , T^ US a " d Ceain « were imaged, while many of the work £che* modi 6t the machinery and rtly-fimahed furniture on the lower *wd by the firemen saved some furni--2k ••***• en,oke mnd water ' b »t ueh of it was eomiiderably charred, he sbowroomm front of the factorv