BLAZE AT NEW PLYMOUTH
EMPIRE THEATRE GUTTED. Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 24. There was a blazing furnace inside four concrete walls when the old -Amliire Theatre, New Plymouth, was completely outted by fire on Saturday evening How the fire was caused is not known, but it apparently began just behind the stage, crept up the back wall and burned furiously in the roof. The building was the property of the estate of the late Mr James Bellringer and was leased by Taranaki Amuements Ltd The insurance on tho buildjpg is £I2OO, and the insurance held by the Taranaki Amusements, Ltd., is/ L9ou. The theatre had not been used lor some months until Saturday afternoon, when Miss Ehvyn Riloy’s pupds used it for a dance rehearsal Someone saw the smoke just aftei nine o’clock and thought it came from the smokehouse of a fish-shop. Halt an hour Inter, Mr It. R. B. Millman, of New Plymouth, who was watching the swimming carnival from the roof of the New Plymouth municipal baths, saw clouds of smoke and the reddish glow of the fire in the sky. He jumped into his car and set out to find it and then gave the alarm at the station.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 76, 25 February 1930, Page 8
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