TWO BIG FIRES
DAMAGE EXCEEDS f 1,000.000. SUGAR AND FLOUR PLANTS AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIES. SUFFER BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Feb. 25, 11.30 a.m. . ADELAIDE, Feb. 25. A tremendous fire broke' out at the iGlanville works of the Colonial Sugar E >, Refining Company, where ... the firm stocks raw sugar amounting" to 15)000 tons. . - ~ 4 \, . : It is estimated that £750,000 worth of sugar was! destroyed. The damage to the building and plant is estimated at £IOO,OOO. Received) Feb. 25, 11.15 a.m. MELBOURNE, Feb. 25. Damage in excess of £250,000 was done by a fire which completely gutted the flour-milling establishment of John Darling and Sons, at Albion. From the outset-,, 'the fire brigade had little chance of saving the mills, owing to the extremely poor water pressure. Soldiers’ settlements in the. vicinity of the mills narrowly escaped destruction. ’ Large stocks of grain and: flour were also destroyed. The mills' were claimed to be tlie most modern in the Southern Hemisphere. - •
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 February 1926, Page 5
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