MORE BIG FIRES
EPIDEMIC IN SYDNEY (0.C.) SYDNEY, May 4. The unusual sight of waterlogged tea and coffee pouring in a flood down a six-storey building attracted a big crowd of spectators on Saturday to Griffiths Bros, warehouse, the four top floors of which were burnt out by the latest outbreak in Sydney's recent epidemic of big fires. The value of the tea and coffee destroyed was estimated at £30,000. It was swept out of the building and over the wall by the torrent of water used by 13 brigades, which fought the fire. On the same day another fire in a Sussex Street building, occupied by merchants and printers, did damage estimated at £20,000, including £10,000 damage to the printery. No one knows how these fires started
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 106, 6 May 1943, Page 4
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