HISTORIC BUILDING.
« —♦ — DUNEDIN STOCK EXCHANGE FIRE. (FRKSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN, July 3. Only the fact that there was no wind enabled the Dunedin Fire Brigade to save the stock in the Dunedin Stock Exchange building, when the fire broke out on Saturday. The place was so strongly ablaze when the alarm was given that a northerly wind would have caused the complete demolition of Dunedin's most historic building. The building was erected of Oamaru stone in 1871 for a post office, and subsequently it was used for the first university. Then it was occupied by the unfortunate Colonial Bank, and later remodelled to house the sharebrokers' call-room and offices, a restaurant, etc. Most of the offices escaped with minor water damage, but the living quarters of the caretaker, Mr Alfred Griffiths, who also conducts a billiards room in the building, were completely gutted, and three of the six billiards tables in his saloon were ruined. The Toe H club room also was gutted, billiards tables are insured for £SOO Insurances of £20,000 afe distributed among six companies. Mr Griffit.hs's billiards tables are insured for £SOO with Lloyd's.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20898, 4 July 1933, Page 10
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