FIRE AT LIME WORKS
ENGINE’S 24-MILE TRIP. (Press Assn.) WANGANUI, June 10. A fire engine had to travel about 24 miles from Wanganui to Waitotara this morning when lire broke out in tbe Waitotara Lime Company’s works. One-half of the company’s main building was destroyed before the engine arrived, but it was able to save the remainder. The fire was discovered just before daybreak by a railwayman living nearby. Employees of tbe works and other' Waitotara residents formed themselves into a voluntary brigade and by means of buckets did good work till the engine from Wanganui arrived. Three hundred feet of hose were run out to a lagoon nearby and the southern half of the building was saved: The roof had caved in when the brigade arrived, the fire having spread beyond the control of the voluntary fighters.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 163, 11 June 1945, Page 3
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138FIRE AT LIME WORKS Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 163, 11 June 1945, Page 3
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