FIRE IN HASTINGS.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 266, 15 May 1907, Page 4

FIRE IN HASTINGS.

[PEB FBBSB ASSOCIATION.] Napier, May 14. One of the most serious fires which has taken place in Hastings for some time broke out about 8 o'clock this evening in Messrs Maddison and Co.'s store. There was a slight wind blowing and the water supply at first was poor which enabled the fire to get a good hold. The large buildings occupied by Messrs Maddison and Co., Williams and Kettle, Ltd., and by Peterson, Mossman and Co., commission agents, and J. J. Faulkner, dentist, who have offices upstairs, were totally destroyed with exception of the seed dressing department of Williams and Kettle's. The fire spread to the Bank of New Zealand and this too was destroyed, while S. Bones' Cafe, and E. Leigh's, chemist, were gutted. The strong rooms at both the Bank and Williams and Kettle's are intact. The fire has now been got under.