FIRES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11954, 26 May 1933, Page 4

FIRES

DAIRY FACTORY GUTTED

(Press Association) lIAWERA, -May '23. A fire which was discovered at 10.30 p.m. yesterday gutted the Mercinere Daily Company’s factory at Ohangai. The los s includes 1100 crates of cheese stored in the curing room. The insurance details are not available.

EIRE IN BUS BARN. THREE VEHICLES DAMAGED. (Press Association) HASTINGS. May 25. The framework and upholstery of two Government- railway buses valued at £2OOO each, were completely destroyed and more extensive damage to a smaller and le.vs vi’-uable bug was done by a fire which also completely gutted a large wood and iron building in which they were housed to-night. The outbreak ®euurred at about 10 o’clock. So far, tlie origin is not definitely known, but it is assumed that it was caused by a cigarette butt in one of the buses. The last bus was garaged at 7 o’clock, since- when no one connected with the bus service had entered, the building. The slied was capable of accommodating eight of the ouses used on tlio- • (Napiw-Hastiugs run, but the three bust's damaged were th e only oues there at the time of the outbreak. The two larger buses bad been on t-lje run between Nap Hr and Hastings for the past two years and wore in good condition, but the smaller one had been in use a much longer period. So good a bold did tbo flames have when the, alarm was given that it was'not possiblerto.remove the buses to saiely. Ihe brigade .was engaged f0r.40 m'mites before the . fire wa s quelled. The .Insurances a.ve unavailable.

Protect yourself against. losses _bv fire by insuring with the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, Ltd-G-W. Lissaut, Clayton.’. . , .