FIRE LOSSES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 November 1924, Page 8

FIRE LOSSES.

BIG AUCKLAND BLAZE. (by telegraph—press association. • 1 AUCKLAND, Nov. 17. , The estimate of losses in the Albert Street fire are: —Guthrie, Bowron and C 0.., £29,000; John Dickinson, C0£12,000 £12,000 ;. Cooke and, Co., £8000; Stanley Newcombe, £5000;’ Hunter and Spns, £4000; Auckland Millinery Co., £500; Edward. Best and G 0.,. G. A) Round, and Go., .and. N.Z.,. Textiles, Ltd..all several thousand pounds. The insurances on the buildings owned by Bowron and C 0,.,. £16,000 in the Northern ',Office; Guthrie Bowron on, stock, £13,000, in the : Northern ; Dickenson, oil stock,-£7OOO.- ,Cooke and Co.; on building £3OOO aneb o,n -stock and' plant £SOOO, distributed between the New 7 Zealand Insurance Co., and the South British; Stanley Newcomb, on stock,,, £2550 in,, the Assurance; Punter and Sons, £3ooo.in the Victoria ; Auckland Mill.inery ; .Co., on stock 5 ’ £3OO in the South: British.::

i• At 11.J5 ,p.m. the. Iron roof of Bowrpn’s .building collapsed,, followed bv a portion of .the north wall. , Tons* of brick-and mortar fell thirty feet on to, the .floor below .. The firemen .were just about, to. take ahose through flip ‘upper ; win flows whcnrtbe .wall, "crashed. A portion of the dclTfls and also a machine weighing a ton an da. half •pone-; trated.-tocthe '.first floor and were finally deposited .j ust-outside of. the office.