JOINERY SHOP GUTTED

Evening Star, Issue 25672, 21 December 1945, Page 6

JOINERY SHOP GUTTED

TWELVE ENGINES IN ACTION BATTLE TO CONFINE BLAZE tP.A.) . WELLINGTON, Dec. 21. Fire gutted a two-floored joinery shop and a store in the yards of M. G. Templeton and Sons, building contractors. in Sage’s Lane, and only prompt work by 12 engines from the central and outlying lire stations and an unusual absence of wind prevented the spread of the fire ,to the old wooden ; houses and stores surrounding the apm and another timber yard nearby. One area threatened was Hainiiig street, populated largely by Chinese. The alarm was given shortly after 3 o’clock this morning, and 60 firemen worked three hours to extinguish the fire.

The machinery was damaged and the factory will be unable to operate be-fore-three months.* The loss is particularly serious, because quantities of completed joinery work for State houses were destroyed, and, in. addition, be-, tween 20,000 and 25,000 feet of seasoned heart of totara and redwood were lost and quantities of plywood lost cr damaged . ;