FLOUR MILLS DESTROYED
I Per United Pmss Association.]
CTIRISTCH [JRCII, March 16,
The Kaiapoi Flour Mills, a four-storied building, were completely destroyed by fire early this morning. It is thought that the outbreak was due to the. heating of a pulley block. About twenty tons of flour were destroyed, while 11,000 sacks of wheat were so damaged as to bo practically useless. The mills belonged tojtho estate of the lato Richard_ Evans. _ The building and stock were insured in the New Zealand Company. The insurances are £IO,OOO on the stock and £5,800 on the mill and plant.
Note. —Householders wishing to insure houses or furniture should ring 3,721 or 959, and after 6 p.m. 2,143. Fof about threepence per week you can get a risk of £2oo.—Trotman, Chief Agent, Queensland Insurance Company, Ltd., 15 Princes street.—[Aclvt.]
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Evening Star, Issue 17920, 16 March 1922, Page 9
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136FLOUR MILLS DESTROYED Evening Star, Issue 17920, 16 March 1922, Page 9
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