FIRE IN SYDNEY.
EXTENSIVE DAMAGE CAUSED. SYDNEY, March 3. Fire broke out on Saturday in the top floor of Ultimo House (in the city) and caused damage estimated at £60,000. The blaze started in Simmons’s printing establishment, on the top floor, and spread to a woolbroker’s section, where £BOOO worth of wool was burned. The building was owned by Mr Herbert Solomon,' who is at' present visiting New Zealand. Some firemen were slightly burned by molten lead from the blazing printing establishment.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 80, 4 March 1929, Page 9
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82FIRE IN SYDNEY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 80, 4 March 1929, Page 9
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