FIRE IN GOWN SHOP

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 179, 27 April 1931, Page 11

FIRE IN GOWN SHOP

Workroom Damaged Fire broke out at a few minutes past 8 o’clock last evening in a workroom toward the back of premises situated at 10 Woodward Street, known as “Eve,” frock specialists. The fire was seen through the front windows by several passers-by, and the alarm reached the Central Fire Station at 8.14 p.m., engines setting out immediately, and reaching the burning premises in exceptionally fast time. When the brigade arrived, a crowd of people had already collected in Woodward Street and Lambton Quay, and it could be seen that a room in the interior of the building on the lowest floor was burning fiercely. Volumes of smoke were issuing from the windows on this floor and the floor above. A lead of hose was taken from Lambton Quay, and in a few minutes the blaze had disappeared. The workroom and its contents were badly damaged by fire and water, and a front room was damaged, but not severely, by heat, smoke and water. The remainder of the rooms on the ground floor and one or two of the upper story rooms were slightly damaged by smoke.