CHURCH DESTROYED
FLAMES SPREAD QUICKLY,
POTTAGE IX DANGER
POLICE DO GOOD WORK,
(Special to “Northern Advocate.”)
HIJXTLY, This Day,
Parishioners, clergymen, and police worked feverishly in a praiseworthy effort to save vSt. Paul’s Anglican Church, Huntly, from lire early last evening. They failed, and today the church is a smouldering mass of debris. Sparks from a passing engine arc thought to have caused the fire, which broke out near the ridge of the roof at the back of the church. The fire was noticed early, and a ladder and a bucket of water would have saved the church, but no ladder could be found.
Quickly the dames spread, and soon the building was blazing from end to end. At the risk of injury, the vicar, the Rev. K. R. AADight, and his parishioners made many trips into the heat of the interior and saved every piece of furniture. Effects on the altar were first brought out, then the altar itself, and then the organ and seats.
After throequarters of an hour, the church Avas a mass of flames, and, with a crash and a shower of sparks, the tower and bell fell into the blazing ruin. Police -officers returning from a hard day’s searching in the Ruawaro district hurried to help, and they did excellent work. AVith no fire brigade in the town, which has a population of IJOO, the task was hopeless. A small cottage occupied by Mr P. Sweeney, next door to the church, was threatened at one stage, but a bucket biigade sa\ed it from catching alight. Guilt of wood, with an iron roof, the elmreh was .'IS years old.
Services will l)o eondueted in the I’nrish Hall until a now church has bo °n Tho old ono was insured h\ 1 lie* (linrcli o( England Dlncoson Pensions Board for 1000 in Hie N.Z. ofll ee.
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Northern Advocate, 18 October 1933, Page 6
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