FIRES.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10912, 1 June 1929, Page 7

FIRES.

FRUITERER'S SHOP ABLAZE

OCCUPANTS’ NARROW ESCAPE

(Press Association.) PALMERSTON X., May 31. Awakened shortly after 6 o’clock tins morning by acrid smoke, Norman MacDonald, fruiterer, and confectioner. found the rear of his premises in Rangitikei street ablaze, and had just sufficient time to make a hurried exit through a window. The rear portion gf the premises was gutted, but the front escaped with slight damage. The building was insured for .i'ttiO, the occupier’s stock for £175, and his personal effects for £75. SPECTACULAR BLAZE. 4 ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY CASES OF BENZINE LOST. (Press Association.) OTAKJ, May 31. A. Highways Transport Co.’s lorry with ISO cases of benzine was destroyed last night through a- backfire. FIRE IN PETROL TANK. NARROW ESCAPE IN SYDNEY. United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Press Association.) (Received Mav 31, 9.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 31. An explosion and fire at a petrol storage tank on the harbor front menaced the Colonial Sugar Refining Co.’s large works nearby. Ono workman was seriously injured. The tank contained only fifteen inches of petrol, and the firemen were able to prevent the flames reaching two adjoining filled tanks forty feet in diameter, which would have caused a big loss of life had they exploded. Protect yourself against losses by fire by insuring with the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, Ltd.— W. Lissant Clayton.***