FIRE AT DUNEDIN
STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING ■> [pee press association.] — DUNEDIN, July 3. Only the fact there was no wind enabled the brigade to save the Stock Exchange Building. The place was so strongly ablaze when the alarm was given that a northerly "wind would have caused the complete demolition of Dunedin’s most historic building, erected in Oamaru stone in 1871, for a post office, subsequently used for the first university, then occupied by the ill-fated Colonial Bank, and later remodelled to house sharebrokers, and call room, and offices, restaurant, etc. Most offices escaped with minor water damage, but Griffith’s living quarters were completely destroyed, while three of the six billiard tables in his saloon were ruined. The Toe. 11. Club room was also destroyed. The total damage under four insurances was £20,000 distributed among six companies. Griffith’s billiard tables were insured for £5OO in Lloyds’.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 July 1933, Page 5
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