£4,000 LOSS
FIRE IN CABINET-MAKING PREMISES SPECTACULAR OUTBREAK [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND. April'l7, Loss estimated at about £-i.UOO was paused in hall' a a hour by a spectacular lire ■which destroyed .stock and damaged the premises of Messrs 6. C. Goods and (Jo., a cabinet-making firm in Lome street, just after 5 o’clock this afternoon. Speedy work by two brigades confined the flames to the back of the three-story building, saving stocks of veneers and completed furniture worth hundreds of pounds. In its brief course the fire filled portion of Queen street between Victoria street and Wellesley street with acrid smoke, which attracted hundreds of spectators. A foreman polisher, Mr D. Pearce, discovered the outbreak and attacked the flames with a foam extinguisher, but before it could be brought properly into use he was driven out of the room by the intense heat. He suffered burns to an arm. Firemen wearing respirators wont in, and, working at close quarters, bad the outbreak almost extinguished within half an hour.
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Evening Star, Issue 23863, 18 April 1941, Page 3
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169£4,000 LOSS Evening Star, Issue 23863, 18 April 1941, Page 3
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