BIG FIRE AT WANGANUI.
•HI.SOU IT FAt'TUUY DIvSTROYED.
SIXTY lIAX US OUT OF WORK
/.United Press Association.]
AVAXUAXUI. This Day
A disastrous: lire occurred in the )3ou thorn Gross Jiiseni t Company's premises tins morning, whereby tinwhole factory and contents were completely ' destroyed, iiu-'luding buildings, coiiijiosing, bread, biseut, £• it 11 confectionery departments. The lire started in the rear of the factory, near the broad department, amd aided by a strong wind, soon enveloped tiie whole buildings. There Mas a poor pressure in the water mains, owing to there being ''dead ends,"' and only the arrival of the ifire engine -aved the flour mill adjoining. -Fears were entertained of thi' fire spreading to the tramway power-house and sheds adjoining, and tlie ears were run our to the open, but the only da mag.' was that the cable was slightly scorched, and the switchboard soaked with Aval or. The insurance' total £7.77-1, includ.£2ooo on the mill, which \v;ti uninjured. The following ollices are .ifl'ected:—iSouth Dritish, Sun. Commercial Union, Ocean. Yorksihiro, •Australian Alliance, and Victoria. A'bouf fill- hands have been thrown ■">ut of emidovment.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 17 August 1910, Page 6
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181BIG FIRE AT WANGANUI. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 17 August 1910, Page 6
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