WILLIS STREET FIRES
Two outbreaks of fire, neither of them serious, occurred in Willis Street last night, and a third in the same, vicinity this morning. About 9.45 p.m. yesterday an old wooden building behind the Y.M.C.A. caught alight, but the flames were confined mainly to boxes and straw inside, and very little damage was done to the actual structure.. The building was used by j. Mcllraith and Co., Ltd., for the storage of empty bottles. At 9.20 p.m. yesterday fire broke out in a storage shack adjacent to a garage at 279 Willis Street. A quantity of books and old furniture was damaged. Today, about 11.32 a.m., a fire occurred in the kitchen of the Hotel St. George, where an accumulation of fat round a flue pipe caught fire. It was extinguished by means of bucket pumps.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1941, Page 9
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138WILLIS STREET FIRES Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1941, Page 9
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