FIRE AT RABAUL
ESTIMATED DAMAGE £60,000 [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] CANBERRA, August 23. A Rabaul message reports that W. R. Carpenter and Company’s store, a three-storey building, was destroyed by fire to-day. Most of the local records relating to the expropriated German properties were also consumed. However, the main records relating to these properties, which are of an aggregate value of £2,500,000, are housed at Canberra.
W. R. Carpenter and Company’s premises burned like tinder. The fire also destroyed the adjoining premises of a local baker, a dentist, a solicitor, and an accountant. The damage is estimated at £60,000.
Carpenter and Company’s stocks were saved, but the contents of their freezers, namely meat, vegetables and dairy produce, were destroyed, resulting in a shortage of fresh food for the local population until a ship arrives from Sydney.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 August 1939, Page 8
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