TOTAL DAMAGE £25,000.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 51, 2 March 1909, Page 8

TOTAL DAMAGE £25,000.

CORRECTED INSURANCES. I%Y TELECBAPn. PEESS ASSOCIATION.] TAIHAPE, This Day. Several premises on the opposite side of Main and Tier streets were scorched, windows broken, and stock slightly damaged by v>ra,tei\ But for the absolutely calm night the whole town might have been destroyed. A large quantity of goods wa3.'salvaged, but the loss over insurances is very heavy. There was navej\ any danger to the buildings on the opposite side of the street. The total damage is estimated at about £25-,000. 'The corrected insurances are:—Whaler 8r06., 'bootmakers, £250 in the Australian Alliance. M'Phereori, tailor, £250 in the Sun. Nichoi, jeweller, £300 with tho British. Garner, seed merchnnt, £200 in the Commercial Union. Whitcomb, dentist, £150 in the Commercial Union. Finch, stationer, £100 in the Sun; personal effects, £50 in the New Zealand. Hodgson, plumber, £300, in the Norwich Union. Aldndge, insurance agent, £50, in the Sun. Jones, painter, £250, in the -Sun. Mi6s Fraser, Tea Rooms, £40, in the New Zealand. Wang You, fruiterer, £200, in, the Sun. Ellis and Darvell's insurances are unknown, but are probably in Alliance and Queensland. The stock was valued at £10,000. The Labour Department was uninsured, so far as can be ascertained. W. R. Emerson, solicitor, was insured for £50 in the New Zealand. Insurances on buildings :—Ellis and Darvell, Alliance, £860. Mrs. J. D. Barsby : on Whaler's, Nichols's, and 'M'Pherson's, £450 in the Sun; on Wang You's, £100. W. P. Gamer, £100 in the Commercial Union. E. Jones, £100 in the Snn. E. Hedges : on Finch's, £600 in the New Zealand. F. H. Gibbons : on Garner's, £100 in the Commercial Union.