FIRE AT SUMNER
♦ GROCER’S SHOP AND DAIRY DESTROYED A fire which broke out soon after 2 a.m. yesterday destroyed a grocer’s shop and dairy at the corner of Nayland and Euston streets, Sumner. Although the building and contents were insured the loss is a severe one to the owner Mrs L. Cartwright, whose daughter, Mrs C. Holmes, was in charge of the shop. The building was a wooden one and when the fire was first noticed by a sentry, at Scarborough, who was taking part in Monday evening’s military manoeuvres, the flames had a good hold. The Sumner Volunteer Fire Brigade were quickly on the scene, and did excellent work in preventing the fire from spreading to the nearby twostorey wooden residence. The cause of the fire is not known.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21961, 9 December 1936, Page 14
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