BIG SYDNEY FIRE
Rec. noon. SYDNEY, this day. Damage estimated at more than £100,000 was done when the city's most spectacular fire in seven years gutted a five-storey factory building in the suburb of Glebe. The premises were occupied by five manufacturing firms, whose 700 employees will be unemployed for some weeks at least. Five of the adjoining houses were wrecked by crashing masonry, and others were damaged. The cause of the fire is not known. Fifteen thousand people watched the blaze, which was the biggest in Sydney since Goldsbrough Mort's wool store was gutted in September, 11935.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 254, 27 October 1942, Page 3
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