FIRE AT LOWER HUTT

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 33, 2 November 1928, Page 17

FIRE AT LOWER HUTT

MOTOR GARAGE GUTTED. A brick garage, owned by the Cudby Estate, and used by Mr. 0. Cotterill, situated in Railway Avenue, near the railway Station, Lower Hutt, was completely gutted by fire at 2.30 yesterday morning. There were’ five motor vehicles in the premises—three lorries, owned by the Post and Telegraph Department, Trucks, Ltd., and Mr. Cotterill respectively, and two cars owned by Mr. V. Silk and Mr. Dawson. These were all more or less damaged. Mr. Cotterill also lost a considerable quantity of plant. The origin of the five is unknown. Mr. Silk was the last person on the premises at 10.30 o’clock last night, when everything apparently was all right. The fire was discovered by a passer-by.

OUTBREAK IN WELLINGTON TERRACE. The Fire Brigade received a call early yesterday afternoon to No. 270 Wellington Terrace, a ten-roomed two-floored apartment house owned and occupied by Clement Alexander Clarke. A passage and contents on the ground floor were severely damaged by fire and water, and the rooms on this floor received slight damage from smoke, heat and water. The five rooms and their contents on the first floor was slightly damaged by heat and smoke. The contents were insured in the South British Company for £9OO and the building in the same office for £2OOO.

Don’t be ;. loser. Get adequate insurance. Consult the Mercantile and General Insurance Co., Ltd., Panama Street, Wellington.—Adv'-.