SHIRT FACTORY AT AUCKLAND IS DESTROYED BY FIRE
AUCKLAND, December 10 (P.A.). —A small shirt factory in the Mount Eden railway yards occupied by the Mercury Clothing Company, Ltd, was totally destroyed by fire on Saturday evening. The value of the damage to materials and plant is estimated to be between £12,000 and £15,000. Detectives from the Auckland detective office are investigating the outbreak, as arson is suspected. More than 200 bolts of fine imported shirting material and 160 dozen packets of completed poplin and cotton shirts were destroyed in the blaze. The interior of the onestorey corrugated iron building was completely gutted and rows of electric sewing machines and cutting machines ruined. The fire swept through the building within a matter of minutes. When the signalman at the Mount Eden railway station went off duty at 10.30 p.m. there were no signs of any flames. . . At 10.50 p.m. a resident in Mount Eden road, Mr J. G. Doughty, whose house overlooks the factory, saw flames coming from the roof of the building. He immediately rang the fire brigade, but by the time he completed his call the factory was ablaze from end to end. __
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1950, Page 2
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