JOINERY FACTORY FIRE
Stocks And Plant Damaged (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. March 22. Fire badly damaged the Fletcher joinery factory and extensive stocks within it in Nelson street, Auckland, this morning. The stocks included much joinery completed and ready to be delivered to jobs in the city. The alarm was received at 6.4 a.m.. and flames were bursting through the roof when the brigade arrived. This is the second serious fire which has occurred within a month in buildings owned by the Fletchefc organisation. A big conflagration, early in the evening of March 1, completely destroyed the company’s planing mill, a former joinery store at Penrose. Roofing and the back wall of the joinery factory collapsed and extensive damage was done by charring and scorching to stacks of completed joinery. Thirty employees lost kits of tools, valued at up to £so‘each, but these were insured.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28234, 23 March 1957, Page 12
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