FIRES

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 52, 24 November 1928, Page 29

FIRES

STORE AT THAMES DESTROYED. By Telegraph.—Press Association.’ Thames, November 23. A fire at 1.30 this morning completely destroyed a large building in Brown Street used as a store, belonging tb Messrs. A. and G. Price. The origin is unknown, and the building was well ablaze when the alarm was given, threatening a row of two-story shops opposite. The brigade made a splendid save of a new residence and an adjoining stable which used to be the Scotia Hotel in the early Thames days, and was afterwards converted into a drill hall for the Hauraki Rifles and Thames Scottish Volunteers, finally being used as Hawke’s stables, from which in the later gold days a regular coach time-table was run to Coromandel, Paeroa, Te Arolia, and Waihi. The insurances are £450 on the building and £6O on the contents.

DESTRUCTIVE OUTBREAK AT SAWMILL. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Rotorua, November 23.

A telephone message received at S a.m. from Oruanui, states that at 5.20 a.m. the Taupo Totara Timber Company’s big mill at Mokai was totally destroyed by fire. Three U trucks in the loading shed were also burnt. Nothing was saved. The mill was the largest totara operating mill in the Dominion. The insurances are unknown.

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