FIRE AT EKETAHUNA.
9 (Bt TEt.EGitArn.— srrcctAi, corkesponden-t.) Ekotahuna, September 23. A five-roomed house owned by Sir. W. Preston and occupied by Mr. fl. Walker was, togothcr with contents, totally destroyed by fire at 1.30 o'clock on Wednesday." Nothing was saved. The house was insured for £150, and tho furniture for £100. both risks being held by tho National ofHce.
A rumour, published in a provincial paper, that tho Pctono railway workshops may bo moved to Masterton, is declared to be entirely without foundation. The Department's workshops at Petoiio, Wanganui, and Napier arO all capable of largo extensisus, and thero is not tho slightest probability of now workshops being established in this' province. Tho day may como when tho Nowmarkot workshops, which have not sufficient site for large expansion, may need to, be removed, but oven that contingency is said to be probably, twonty ecus off,
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 310, 24 September 1908, Page 6
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