FIRE AT AUCKLAND.
BOARDERS’ NARROW ESCAPE. Per Press Associal'on. AUCKLAND, Dec. 10. A lire in Waitemata street, Ponsonby, at 1.15 this morning, in a threestorey apartment house conducted by Mrs Peddy, developed into a conflagration which, owing to the low water pressure, endangered a large residential area. The boardinghouse was destroyed, four men and three women leaving by the fire escape. One man carried a lady boarder who fainted. Twenty boarders lost all their personal effects. The fire also gutted the residence of Albert Crowe on one side and practically destroyed a new house recently completed on the other side of the boardinghouse.
BLAZE NEAR INGLEWOOD. LOAD OF BENZINE DESTROYED. NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec. 10. AVhile proceeding along Mountain road, near Inglewood, a lorry load of 160 cases of benzine caught fire from some unexplained cause and was totally destroyed. Traffic was blocked on the road for an hour or two.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1188, 10 December 1924, Page 5
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