30 CARS LOST

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11382, 6 December 1930, Page 5

30 CARS LOST

SPECTACULAR BLAZE AT

HASTINGS

(Pross Association.) " HASTINGS, Dec.ff. About 3Q cars, twp. or .three of which were new .were, destroyed by fire, which.- following- ft violent, explosion, apparently.,.caused by benzine, completely .gutted a two-storey-ed wood and iron annexe to Messrs J. E. Peach and Co., garage at the corner of . Eastbourne street and Karamu road, Hastings, in the early hours of this morning.

The fire wap. one of the fiercest apd most spectacular . seen in Hastings during, recent years, and in hardly more than .ten minutes had done its des.hniefisye . work. The flajnes lit up thg>, whole .neighborhood so ■ vividly- that" it seemed , afc first as though even buildings gcross the street were ablaze. The . brigade was .quickly,; on the scene. 'and did magnificent work. The against, heavy .odds. The main part of the garage, in which n - very large number of ;’ ■eq.rs;, stored; .' wps separated, .from. the...’annexe by , a thick * brick/' wall,; and - , not affected by smoko; and- water. The annexe was .an old building nt one time known as S'orensen’s Building. . The insurances are''not available.