JOINERY WORKS GUTTED
NOTHING SAVED [Pee United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, February 9. The joinery works of D. Scott and Sons, Montreal street, were completely destroyed by a fire which broke out early this morning. The alarm was given at 1.45 a.m., when the fire had a good hold, and there appeared no prospect of saving" - the building. The efforts of the brigade were directed to getting the fire under control as quickly as possible and preventing it from spreading to a largo quantity of timber close by. By concentrating the hoses from three separate directions, the brigadesirien lost little time in subduing the fire, although it was ’ impossible at that stage tq save any portion of the joinery works. Within half an hour of the alarm being given the fire had been reduced to a steaming, sodden mass of corrugated iron and charred beams. The loss rims into several thousands.
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Evening Star, Issue 23496, 9 February 1940, Page 12
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