FIRES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20076, 4 November 1930, Page 15

FIRES.

OLD BUILDING DAMAGED. A fire at No. 5 Ptirdie street, a twostorey joinery-works, owned by Mr C. Purdie, did considerable damage last evening to the upper storey and contents. The Christchurch Brigade received a call to the premises at 7.25 p.m. and quickly subdued the oatbreak. The building was an old one, and was used by Mr Purdie as a workshop. & OUTBREAK IN OTAHUHU WORKSHOPS. (PHSSS ASSOCIATION TKLEQJUHO AUCKLAND, November S. Fire broke out in the railway workshops at Otahuhu to-night, when the boiler-house at the workshop mill was destroyed. The fire started at 9 o'clock. The nightwatchman gave the alarm on the workshop bell. Twenty men at once attacked the fire, and were reinforced by the Otahuhu ,Fire Brigade. The flames were soon under control. It was difficult to-night to estimate the full extent of the damage. Only the framework of the boiler house building, about 60 feet long by 30 feet wide, is left standing. Had the Are spread to the timber mill adjoining great quantities of valuable timber would have j been burned.