SCRUB FIRE AT NEW BRIGHTON

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29101, 13 January 1960, Page 7

SCRUB FIRE AT NEW BRIGHTON

One-Acre Area

An area of nearly one acre of scrub on the foreshore in Jervois street, New Brighton, was burnt in an outbreak of fire yesterday afternoon. Two units from the New Brighton fire station answered the call to the fire at 4.29 p.m., and were engaged for more than two hours in quelling the fire and standing by for further outbreaks. It was not known how the fire started. Slight damage to the rear wheels of a truck which was parked on the property of Brian Williams, 44 Proctor street, St. Albans, was caused by a fire at 3.06 p.m. The cause of the fire was not known. It was quickly extinguished by a unit from the St. Albans station.

Twenty bales of hay on a property at 207 Waimea terrace, Somerfield, owned by Lindsay Thomas Armstrong, were destroyed in a fire which broke out about 5.44 p.m. One unit from the Sydenham station extinguished the fire. A small fire in the lucerne dehydration plant on D. H. Brown and Son’s premises, 38 Moorhouse avenue, was attended by two units from the Central Fire Station. The fire broke out at 6.29 p.m. while the machine was in operation, and was caused by lucerne overheating in the dehydration process.