BLAZE IN WELLINGTON.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 221, 16 August 1928, Page 7

BLAZE IN WELLINGTON.

WOODEN BUILDINGS DESTROYED,

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 16. . An unenviable task fell .to the brigade at 4.30 in the morning when a fire broke out in a wooclen building at 86 Taranaki Street, ihe P ro nvses were practically unoccupied, there being only the plumbers shop on the first floor of Mr F. Cooper. The flames spread to the two-storey furniture factory of Messrs Reynard and Turner, 16 Ghuznee Street, "bich, with the contents, was severely damaged. Portion of the bunding at the roar was totally destroyed, and e Foresters’ Arms Hotel was °n'y by strenuous efforts and the fact that a brick wall intervened. The occupants of the hotel made a hurnecl exit, but the. place was only scorched and damaged by water. , An unoccupied wooden cottage at the rear in Egmont Street was damaged by fire and water, as also was the workshop of Messrs Aldred and Griffiths, sheet metal worrSbrs. On the other side of the premises from where the fire originated was the shop or Messrs Hill and Jackson, painters and paper hangers, the contents of which did not suffer, a concrete wall effectually preventing the fire taking a hold. The buildings are all old wooden ones which were to have been demolished in the near future. _ , The damage has not been estimated with, certainty. The cause is attributed to vagrants sleeping in the unoccupied portion of the building where the fire was discovered.