English couple assess losses
PA Auckland A British couple, Penelope Collins and John Winsbury-White, came to New Zealand to start a new life. Now their belongings, valued at $500,000, lie in ashes. They lost antiques, gold, silver, paintings, ornaments, furniture, clothing, photographs, letters, and children’s toys in a fire on Tuesday which gutted an Onehunga transport depot and furniture storage building. The goods were insured, but they said money could not replace generations of family photographs, antiques collected from throughout
the world, or the toys two young daughters lost. All they have salvaged is a brass Egyptian fingerbowl. The two arrived six months ago to help set up tourist apartments and a hotel at the Bay of Islands. Van Lines workers yesterday began to contact people throughout the world who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of possessions in the fire which destroyed the premises. Two other firms, Direct Transport and United Carriers, also used the building.
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Press, 13 March 1987, Page 3
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