HOTEL BURNED DOWN
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day.
The Junction Hotel at Spring Creek, an old wooden building of fourteen rooms, was totally destroyed by flro at 1 o'clock this morning. The licensee and two lodgers were in the kitchen getting supper, and on returning to the sitting-room discovered the place ablaze. They aroused the other occupants, who escaped in their night attire.
Nothing was saved. The building was owned by Stapies and Co., Wellington, but the amount of the insurance is unknown. The furniture was insured for £325 in the British Traders' Office, and the personal effects of the licensee were covered for £200, and those of liis father for £150, both in the North British and Mercantile Office. The stock was insured for £450.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 136, 9 June 1926, Page 11
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127HOTEL BURNED DOWN Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 136, 9 June 1926, Page 11
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