FIRE OUTBREAKS

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 March 1930, Page 7

FIRE OUTBREAKS

ONEHUNGA TIMBER MILL FACTORY’S SECOND BLAZE [per press association.] AUCKLAND, March 28. Damage estimated at about £2OOO was caused by a fire early this morning in a timber mill at Onehunga, owned by the Parker Lamb Timber Company. A fire on Eden Terrace at 1 a.m. practically completed the des ti action of a factory occupied by the Atlas Furnishing Coy, and R. H. Stevenson, stair builder, which was extensively damaged by an outbreak on Wednesday morning. It is supposed that the smouldering sawdust beneath the floor in Stevenson’s premises started a fresh outbreak. The insurances, as stated in connection with the previous fire, are Stevenson £4OO (Atlas Office) and the Furnishing Coy. £3OO. NAPIER LAUNDRY. NAPIER, March 28. The Hawke’s Bay Steam Laundry, a large wooden building in Thackeray Street, Napier, was totally destroyed by fire this morning. The family had a narrow escape, after being awakened by a pet dog and a parrot, both of which perished. Two firemen were slightly injured and the occupier, Howell, received a badly-cut hand while escaping. The building was owned by Captain Lake, of Sydney. The building was insured for £2OO in the Sun office and the plant for £275 in the Sun office, and £5OO in the Eagle Star office.

WOMAN FATALLY BURNED. SYDNEY, March 28. Mrs. Duff, 75, was incinerated when her home at Timoha was destroyed by fire. This was the third fatal blaze in a few days, resulting in six deaths. A fetv minutes after 11 o’clock last night, a telephone message was received at the Central Fire Station, that there was an outbreak at Schaef's garage in Mackay Street. The Brigade’s services were, however, not required, as the cause of the alarm was ignition of a piece of cardboard which covered some live ashes in a trench in which some paper had been burned during the afternoon. The embers had not been wholly extinguished by the employees, but the debris had burned itself out by the time the firemen found it.