DAMAGED BY FIRE
HOTEL, GYMNASIUM AND STORE LOST (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Greyinouth, July 14. Blackman's Hotel, the gymnasium hall, end the Co-operative Store at Blackball were totally destroyed by fire during the Bight. The outbreak was discovered about 12.30 o’clock, but it is not known, how it originated. It started in the hotel, and quickly ignited tjie qdjbiniug nasiumEvery effort wap made, by tliq fire-fight-ers to sufiduo they outbreak, fiut wind banned fha flames, an) the fire spread to the Co-operative Store, which was soon enveloped. StephouSe s etore • and the Oddfellows’ Hal). a)(so cqught fire, but by desperate effort on tlje part of a bucket brigade, the latter buildings were saved.
The futnjture and other goods in the hotel were saved, hut the proprietor apd otflers who resided there lost their personal effects..
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 244, 16 July 1928, Page 11
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