FIRE AT PORIRUA
CABARET DESTROYED
The Riviera Cabaret at Porirua was totally destroyed by fire early on Saturday morning. A fierce southerly gale was blowing when the outbreak was noticed at about 5 a.m.. and within an hour the large wooden building and its contents were reduced to a heap of ashes, only the chimney and the roofing iron remaining. A,private hotel, also a.wooden building about 30 feet.from the site of the cabaret, were endangered by the fire, but water was poured from the roof down the side of the hotel and the damage was thus confined to windows broken by the heat. j\fr. C. Greer, the hotel proprietor, also owned the cabaret. He is a.heavy loser, for the insurance does not cover the full value of the building and its contents, which were worth over £2000. To a "Post" reporter today Mr. Greer expressed the opinion that the fire started from a cigarette butt left on a settee in the lounge. There was a dance in the cabaret on Friday night, and when Mr. Greer closed the place at 1.30 a.m. on Saturday he noticed nothing suspicious. . He considers, however, that the settee could have smouldered for a long time before bursting into flames' . -
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Evening Post, Volume c, Issue 54, 5 March 1934, Page 11
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205FIRE AT PORIRUA Evening Post, Volume c, Issue 54, 5 March 1934, Page 11
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