SAWMIIL DESTROYED BY FIRE.

Mataura Ensign, 18 March 1909, Page 3

SAWMIIL DESTROYED BY FIRE.

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A huge two-storeyed brick sawmill occupied by >j r tiavin Watson, conil actor, was completely destroyed bv lire this morning. Tho plant and a quantity of timber were destroyed and the telephone wires in ihe vicinity were disi'calcd, rutting oil' about 2(ld sub■erib'.'rs in the southern part of the city, Tile building war, owned by the trustei'S of Christ's College, and was church property. Tlio trustees were insured for S'T.'i in the A.'urtliern office, and the contents and plant, en nod by Mr Watiiin, were iu.-nred lor J:1210 in the Atlas ijllice.