FIRE AT WAIHI.
Per Press Association. AVAIHL, Jan. 25. Tho fusing of telephone wires, which had been made alive by coining in contact with a 593 volt electric cable outside tho Waiiii Gold .Mining Company’s offices, was responsible for an outbreak of /ire at tho office of the building on Sunday afternoon. The lire was .subdued by tho company’s fire fighting plant, aided later by the town fire brigade. The damage is estimated at .L'3oo
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 48, 26 January 1926, Page 4
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75FIRE AT WAIHI. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 48, 26 January 1926, Page 4
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