DOMINION NEWS.

Grey River Argus, 24 June 1925, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

LORRY DESTROYED BY Eilu ELTJIAM, Juno 2’l. Petrol which was being poured in L<) ■' Link o| a two-tou lorry at Matemateaonga, eighteen miles from l-j tha>m, yesterday, suddenly explo le t and burst into flames. The owner =: the lorry, Fred Robinson, of Eltl'am who was in the cab, was burned vrrely about, the arms and face 'rft re he could jump from the l cab. T’a lorry was immediately enveloped in flames, and it burned fur hours, Robinson being unable to attempt i«; save the truck, as no water was a\-;u, able. Mails from the back country ami packages were saved, but tb<‘ lorry was practically destroyed. HOKITIKA FIRE. HOKITIKA, June 23. About 5 a.m. yesterday a lip' discovered in All Saints Sunday sch •< room at Hokitika, at the corner t ' Boaley and Stafford streets. The fire had a good hold when the. Brigade arrived, but a lead of water soon hf. the outbreak under control, but 1 labuilding was practically gutted. Mip M. Davies who uses portion of tn< building for her music pupils was in the building last night up to J o'clock and whim she left everything appeared secure. There is only one firo stove in the budding, but this portion was the least damaged, showing the fir e did not originate therefrom. The outbreak appears to have started in the corner of theenclosed portion of the verandah ar . it spread rapidly to the roof running along to all portions of the structure which was badly gutted. Miss Da. es had two pianos and a quantity of furniture in her room. One piaiuon the stage was badly damaged I y fire and water, but the other was practically undamaged, though itwas not got out till the fire w-.is under control. The building is stated to bo insured for £l5O by the Churcn Property Trustees in Christchurch, while Miss Davies had an insurance of £5O on each of her two pianos one in the Southern Union, and the other in the National Office. The fire appears to be another of those wanton occurrences that have Je stroyed quite a number of the old landmarks of the town, and the passing of this structure will b? deplored by many, who have very pleasant, recollections of happenings therxn in years gon ( > by.