FIRE IN SYDNEY STREET
Well alight by the time the Fire Brigade arrived, a small asbestosroofed wooden building in course of construction for the Scientific and Industrial Research Department at 111 Sydney Street, was destroyed by fire this morning. The building was intended to house a gas refrigerating plant, and while workmen were treating the walls with bitumen and cork, the bitumen exploded and started the fire.
When the brigade arrived dense clouds of smoke were pouring from the building and there were 'several minor explosions. At one time the flames threatened a larger two-storey wooden building next door, also occupied by the Scientific and Industrial Research Department, but through the efforts of the brigade it escaped with one scorched wall. One machine from Central and another from Thorndon turned out, and two leads of hose were used to extinguish the blaze.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 9
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142FIRE IN SYDNEY STREET Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 9
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