SPECTACULAR BLAZE.
OUTBREAK AT WAPPING
COLONIAL WHARF INVOLVED
(British Official Wireless.) Received September 26, 12.15 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 25. A spectacular fire, fortunately involving no loss of life, broke out at the colonial wharf at Wapping, and soon after hundreds of firemen, with 35 engines and two fire-floats, were fighting the blaze. The colonial wharf is the largest in this reach of the river, and the floors where the fire took place house rubber, tea, and oriental products. Traffic was suspended in High Street, Wapping, and the neighbouring dockside streets, and later police measures had to be taken to push back the crowds of spectators as an enormous crane on the top of the building threatened to collapse. Reinforcements from fire brigade districts further afield arrived, but the fire has not yet been quelled.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 256, 26 September 1935, Page 8
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134SPECTACULAR BLAZE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 256, 26 September 1935, Page 8
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