£16,000 DAMAGE IN HOTEL FIRE.
EXCITING RESCUE WITH LADDER !
{By Telegraph-Pres? Assn.-Copyright) Received Sunday, 9.20 p.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 2. A fire at the Central Austnu mi hotel at Bourke yesterday destroyed the entire premises and contents, caus£lo,ooo damage. A number of guests and employees had a narrow escape from being t . ppod. One woman was rescued from
] the balcony by means of a ladder (which hud to bo rushed from the post i-office 200 yards away.
i Blenheim Brewery Destroyed BLENHEIM Last Night. The Marlborough Brewery Company's brewery, offices and stores were gutted by fire at an early hour thi3 ■morning. The damage to the company's plant and premises totalled £SOOO. The adjoining cellars with a large stock of liquor escaped.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 February 1936, Page 7
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