THEATRE BURNT DOWN.
A RIG BLAZE IN NAPIER. [BY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NAPIER, This Day. A fire broke out shortly after nine o’clock yesterday in the Gaiety Theatre, a huge iron structure used for the combined purposes of Thompson Payne’s pictures and Hawkins and Rome’s motor gaiage. Before the Brigade arrived, the flames, assisted by inflammable contents, had taken entire charge of the buildings and efforts had to be concentrated to confining the file within the limits of the theatre. The whole structure was soon a roaring furnace, and hut for the fact that it was isolated, the fire must have spread. As it was, shops and dwellings ou the south side of Dickens Street were badly scorched and windows broken. So rapidly did the flames spread that the caretaker of the building, Mnnro, and his wife, had a narrow escape, the former receiving severe burns. Within half an hour of the alarm being given, the theatre was a mass of smoking debris.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 June 1911, Page 5
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