CHRISTCHURCH FIRE
Joinery Works Destroyed
(Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. February 9. The joinery works of Jlessrs. D. Scott and Sons. Montreal Street, were completely destroyed by tire during the night.' The alarm was given at 1.4 a a.m. The fire had then a good bold and as there appeared no prospect of saving the building the efforts of the brigade were directed to getting the lire under control as quickly as possible and preventing it: from spreading to a large quantity of timber close by. , Bv concentrating hoses from three separate directions the brigadesmen Jost little time in subduing the blaze. Though it was impossible at that stage to save any portion of the joinery works, within half an hour of the alarm being given the fire had been reduced to a steaming, sodden mass of corrugated iron and charred beams. The loss runs into several thousands of pounds, k
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 117, 10 February 1940, Page 5
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