FIRE OUTBREAKS

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 May 1925, Page 2

FIRE OUTBREAKS

MAQKAY STREET DAMAGE.

.At 12.30 o’clock'this .mornings fii’G was discovered by a telegraph. ,messenger; named ’C. Watson, at the rear of tan#’ premises, in Mackay Street occupied by Messrs Colliers Ltd. The alarm was quickly given and the Brigade promptly arrived un the scene and extinguished the five. The lire appears to have started in the outer wall and worked ( i(s. way id to the interior of' the back portion df' ■ the' 'shop', which was'' ! deed ■' for tailoring, the bench up against the wail" being slightly charred. The whole of the stock of tailor-made clothes in course of completion and the stock of costumes etc., in the shop have been spoiled' with water. There is, so far as is known, no in-, shrance, the policy having fun . out . months ’ago. A.' Simson, tho manager for -Colliers, states that no gaslight . or. ring; had been used since- three o?clo,ck in the afternoon, and when shutting' up 1 for the night, everything appeared to be safe. V ' . TIMBER'YARD ABLAZE.’ (Per l(jess Association.) Wellington, May 7. 1A fire occtirred at 9.20 o’clock tonight at‘ E. S. Knight’s timber yard and joinery shop in -Vivian .Street." It llad a goo<l hold when the alarm was giverif ' The roof fell in after twenty minutes, and a l/uge mass of flames Shot skywards- ' Had a wind been blowing, a number of houses STTjoinihg would have’gdne. Knight’s was gutted. .s . b May 8. pKnight’s BuilHiiigp, destroyed by lire ■ lust night. ~vjas 'inshred in the South. British office for £187.0; the machinery wtas covered, in the 's’ame office for £l5OO and timber "and stock in the Atlas for, £4OO. It is understood that the police are inquiring into the.cuuse of the fire.