CITY BLAZE

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 111, 6 November 1935, Page 10

CITY BLAZE

FIVE ENGINES CALLED

CARS ESCAPE DAMAGE

The crews of five engines drawn from the Central, Constable Street, and Thorndon brigades effectively spoiled what had the makings of a spectacular and impromptu Guy Fawkes blaze just after 6 o'clock last evening. A large crowd gathered to watch the burning of an old wooden building between Lloyd Street and Nelson Street, but the fire was short-lived after the arrival of the engines.

The building is owned by Dominion Motors, Ltd., one portion being used by that firm as a motor-car store and paint shop, and the other part by Rouse, Black, and Sons as a motor-car upholstery shop. A number of cars that were in the building escaped damage, the fire being confined to another part of the premises.

The Central Station machines arrived two minutes after the alarm, and by then the fire, which had started in Rouse, Black's part of the building, had a firm hold, although attempts had been made to quell it with hand extinguishers. The building is oC Iwo storeys at t that part, and the flames had burst through the ground floor to the upper floor nnd were coming through the roof. The blaze, however, was put under control immediately with two simultaneous deliveries.