LOSS OF £5000.
AX EXTENSIVE FIRE. TAUMARUXUI, This Day. A! .1 o'clock this morning - fin* broke out in Winstone's roof unci tile works iii'd* uryirti? sheds: The structure-work round the eight kilns wis destroyed and the main building was reduced to ashe.». The lire had a strong hoi i when the alarm was given, but the brigade succecded in saving the engine sheds and valuable machinery, including a new 100 horse-power Voiler. Twenty thousand tiles were destroyed. The same premises v burnr to the ground in October, 1919. The damage is estimated at £5000 above the insurances, which are not known locally.—Press Assn.
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Northern Advocate, 15 March 1922, Page 5
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103LOSS OF £5000. Northern Advocate, 15 March 1922, Page 5
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