DAMAGED BY FIRE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 123, 23 April 1940, Page 6

DAMAGED BY FIRE

BUILDING in WELLINGTON BUSINESS FIRM’S LOSS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 23. Considerable damage was done to Summer’s Building, Cable Street, by a fire early this morning. lhe top ifoor occupied by Schneideman and Sons’ manufacturing tailors, as a workroom, was gutted and severe damage was done to 1 urn ball and Jones s workshop, on part of the floor below Other sections of the building suffered from the effects of the great quantity ot water used to suppress the flames. . . „ When the alarm was received at 2.35 the Mow could be seen from the central station and a brigade call was issued Engines were quickly on the scene, and many leads of hose were run out, the fire being attacked on all sides So strong had been the hold, however, before' the alarm was given that a large part of the roof fell in and part of the• top. floor gave way under the heavy pressing of the machinery, but well inside an hour there was no sign of flames. . Intensive uh 6 whs mnclc ot t3.rp3.lL” lins* to cover the stock from water. Some leads were taken through Austin House and a good deal of water escaped here. Most of it was lying in the furniture storeroom of Kenner s, Ltd., but the furniture itself appeared to escape damage. . , . In addition to the loss of clothing, made-no articles .in the course of manufacture and stocks, feclinei deman’s lost heavily through loss ot machinery, and hundreds of patterns are described as irreplaceable. A member of the firm said the fire would also have a serious effect on the carrying out of orders for military uniforms. A great deal of the fire was concentrated in part of the middle floor occupied by Turnbull and Jones on to which the floor above gave way lhe ground floor was occupied by l<aber s Furnishing Company, Ltd. and A. U. Healing and Co., cycle and motor importers.' The building was owned by Mr E. A. Summers, of Christchurch. Schneidemau’s had been the tenants since the first part was erected in 1923.