SHIP ON FIRE
BAGS OF MAIL DESTROYED
SENSATION IN SUVA,
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evenim Put")
AUCKLAND, This Day;
The Suva townspeople were proyideA; with a sensation on Monday week^ when a fire alarm was given and ,th*: brigade hurried to the King's Wharf,1 where the Fiji Shipping Company.'* steamer Adi Keva lay 'loaded. : "Shei was burning merrily in spite, of 'the efforts of the amateur firefights«. pji' the wharf. With three jets playing 09 the two decks, the brigade soon extinguished the flames, but not befor«l they had destroyed thirteen bags of mail, including New Zealand and Australian mails for Levuka, together with: two bags from Noumea and Wallii, Island, believed to contain official cor-, respoiidence. ■■'•'■»' From one bag that was not damaged, a parcel had been stolen. The damage,; which is estimated at from £500 ta £1000, ia covered by insurance. y'Th* engine-room was not damaged, and^it was decided to sail on Wednesday^ lot, Lautoka, contractors making the jour«: ney to effect repairs a« the steamer proceeded. ■:
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 107, 2 November 1926, Page 8
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170SHIP ON FIRE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 107, 2 November 1926, Page 8
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