BIG FIRE AT MARTON.
SHOPS DESTEOYED.
Per Pi ess Association - • - Marton, December 4.
The second big fire within the last month broke out at Marton about two o'clock to-day, totally destroying. Mr J, „ M. Nicol'a shop, refreshment rooms, and bakehouse; Mr B. G. Goebel, fruiterer and produce merchant; J. Milligan, crockery and ironmongery; and Mar Bornkold, jeweller's shop and dwelling* The water supply was cut Off temporarily, and when the brigade got to work Nicol's building, where the fire started, was in a mass of flameß. The brigade worked splendidly, and saved several adjoining buildingß.
The insurances areNiool'a stock, £250 in the Alliance; ehop downed by Mrs Nicol, sen., JSBOO in the Liverpool, London and Globe; Goebel's stock, i&Oin "u the New Zealand office; shop oimed by A. H. Satcliffe, £300 in Liverp&ri, london and Globe; Mulligan's stock, £250 in the Commercial Union ; shop owned by A. H. Satcliffe, .2600 in the Liverpool, London' and. Globe ; Barnbold'a . stock and furniture, j£s3o in the State office; sbopand dwelling, JB4OO in the New Zealand office.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 281, 5 December 1907, Page 4
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