BLAZE AT URENUI.
POST OFFICE AND STORE DESTROYED. Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, March 7. Fire destroyed the post office and Fitzgerald’s general store at - Urenui late last night. The desperate efforts of a bucket brigade saved Howell’s boarding-house next door, although the wall was scorched. The Post Office had four living rooms attached and all were destroyed. The mail matter and some valuablo fittings and most of the postmaster’s furniture were saved. The blaze originated in tho store, which was rapidly reduced to ashes. The fire leaped across a right-of-way and soon the Post Office was burning fiercely. The store is insured for £250, and the stock for £llOO. The furniture of tho Postmaster (Mr Loveridge) is insured for £250.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 86, 8 March 1930, Page 10
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121BLAZE AT URENUI. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 86, 8 March 1930, Page 10
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