$40,000 Damage In Wellington Blaze
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, January 16. Stock and plant equipment valued at about $40,000 were destroyed in a fire which swept through the refrigeration servicing department of H. W. Clarke, Ltd, in Cable Street, Wellington at 7.40 p.m. yesterday.
The fire is believed to have started in the department, where a refrigerator on a table was discovered ripped open, possibly by an explosion. Compressor* and tools used by the firm’s service engineers were destroyed. Five engines from the Central Fire Station attended the blaze, which spread up the wooden panelling on the ground floor to offices on the first floor. Firemen had quelled the flames and were cleaning up pieces of smouldering wood when fire suddenly flared up again on the first floor at about 8.20 p.m. Ladders were run up to the windows and the new outbreak quickly dealt with. The general manager of the company (Mr K. W. Stephen) said today that preliminary estimates put the damage at $40,000. The building and its contents were fully insured, he added.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31579, 17 January 1968, Page 26
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