DUNEDIN BUILDING DESTROYED
FIRE IN EARLY MORNING (Hew Zealand Press Association)' DUNEDIN, February 21. Fire early this morning destroyed the interior of the Cumberland street premises of Coull, Somerville, and Wilkie, and left the building an empty shell. It was the most spectacular and disastrous fire in Dunedin for many years, and the replacement value of the stock, plant, and building has oeen estimated at £145,000. Within four minutes of the flames bursting through the corrugated iron roof in the middle of the building it was burning fiercely from end to end of its 300 ft length. Firemen were driven back by the heat as they opened the large doors giving entrance from Cumberland street and from Castle street on the other side of the block. Tlie building covered half an acre, and contained a considerable tonnage of paraffin wax and large quantities of plain and processed paper.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26662, 22 February 1952, Page 8
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