CABARET FIRE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 114, 16 May 1942, Page 8

CABARET FIRE

PETER PAN DAMAGED

PROMPT WORK BY MACHINES

i Shortly after 5 o'clock ttfis morniing, military sentries saw flames issuing from a window of the Peter Pan Cabaret on the corner of Lome and Rutland Streets. A call was immediately sent to the Central Fire Station, and four machines from that station, assisted by one from Western Suburbs, one from Parnell, and two from the Emergency Fire Service attended. . Nobody was in the building at the time and it is supposed that the outbreak was started by a smoldering cigarette butt setting alight the upholstery of one of the seats. Prompt work by the firemen restricted the fire to the north-western corner of the cabaret, despite the fact that it had got a good hold, as evidenced by the damage done to the cubicles in that corner, and the extensive blackening of the ceiling and walls. Damage was done to part of the furnishings. The internal fittings were insured for £2250 in the Yorkshire Company. Mr. A. E. Moore, manager of the Yorkshire Insurance Company, Limited, and a director of the cabaret, said that the brigadesmen were to be - congratulated on their fine work, as despite the intensity of the fire'and the hold the flames already had when the machines arrived, they • saved the rest of the cabaret from destruction.