Wool Store Fire
FLAMES SHOOT UP AGAIN. SMELL OP BURNING WOOL TEN MILES AWAY United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. SYDNEY, Sept. 2S. The Goldsbrough Mort fire is still burning, and twenty firemen are constantly on duty and continue pouring on water. During the night a strong wind caused the flames to shoot up again and residents of suburbs as far as ten miles from Prymont roperrt that they can smell burning wool, and charred fragments of wool which are apparently carried into tho upper atmosphere with the smoke and arc still descending. Tho above fire broke out on Wednesday r : ng when ono of the biggest wool stores in New South Wales was destroyed and 30,000 bales of wool burned.' Two firemen were injured. The total damago to the wool aud store is £750,000.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 231, 1 October 1935, Page 9
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135Wool Store Fire Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 231, 1 October 1935, Page 9
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