FIRES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16549, 13 May 1914, Page 9

FIRES.

THE NAPIER. FIRE. TOTAL DAMAGE NEARLY £30,000. [Per Press Association.] NAPIER, May 12. It is estimated that the total damage caused by last night’s fire will amount to a sum of between £27,000 and £30,000, but exact details are not available. Williams and Kettle’s total loss reaches approximately £16,500, which includes £ISOO for damage by water. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s loss is estimated to reach £7OOO on the building and plant. The_ following are the insurances on the New Zealand Shipping, Company’s loss:—Atlas, £650; Northern Office, £500; Alliance, £500; Royal Exchange (which also carried a large cover on other owners’ stock stored in the building) £500; North British and Mercantile, £500; United, £1640. The Atlas Company also held £1250 risk on De Pelichet and M’Leod’s stock, and the South British £BOO. F. M. Bourke’s loss was covered by £3600, but the office is unknown. S. Wood was insured for £3OOO in the British Dominion. _ All these had wool and flax stored in the Shipping Company’s building, all being destroyed. Dalgety’s loss is .estimated at £IOOO, by water. Further insurances are unknown, but all the destroyed and damaged property was covered, every office being affected. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s insurances total £5400, made up as follows:—Royal Exchange, building £1720. plant and fittings £500; Alliance, building £3BO, plant £130; North British," bujlding £3BO, plant £130; Norwich Union, "building £3BO, plant £130: Atlas, building £650; Union, building £1230, plant and fittings £420. In most cases the companies are largely reinsured and nearly every office doing business in this town is affected-