DAMAGE BY FIRE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19292, 3 April 1926, Page 8

DAMAGE BY FIRE

A CALL TO HOWE STREET. FLAMES QUICKLY SUPPRESSED. A prompt alarm prevented the serious development of a fire which broke out shortly before three 6'clock on Thursday morning in a two-storey building on tho corner of Howe and Jersey Streets, owned by the Auckland City Council. A millinery room on the top floor occupied by Mrs. C. McFarlane, suffered some damage and a stock of hats was destroyed. The stock and furnishings on this floor were insured for £6OO. The bottom floor occupied by Mr. A. Slade, basketmaker, suffered from water. The contents were insured for £IOO. ALBERT STREET OUTBREAK. BUILDING INSURED FOR £IOOO. It was ascertained on Thursday that the fire which broke out shortly before midnight the previous evening, and which caused practically the complete destruction of the interior of a small, two-storey building at the upper end of Albert Street, had its origin among a collection of tyres, inner tubes and other rubber goods stored at the rear of the premises. When the heat broke the windows the draught made the flames spread rapidly. The building is owned by Messrs. J. Wiseman and Sons, Ltd., and was insured for the sum of £.IOOO with the General Accident and Fire Assurance Office. The ground floor, consisting of two shops fronting Albert Street, was occupied by the Albert Tyre Service, and the upper floor by Myons and Ray, tailors. GOOD SAVE AT CHRIST CHURCH. A DYE WORKS IN FLAMES. [BY TELECTRArrr. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHBISTCHURCH, Friday. Fire occurred in the factory of Taylor's City Dye Works at 5.40 p.m. on Thursday morning. The drying room flooring was destroyed and the iron work warped, but little structural damage was done to the brick building. All the Easter orders for dyeing and cleaning had been completed and the clothing removed to another portion of the works. The fire had a good hold, but the brigade made a splendid save. The buildings were insured in the Yorkshire Office but the amount is not ascertainable. THE WANGANUI BRIGADE. , PROOF OF EFFICIENCY. "The average loss by fire since the Wanganui Fire Board took over control of the brigade in 1919 works out at under 5 per cent., which is quite a satisfactory record, and compares more than favourably with a good many other places in the Dominion," remarked Superintendent Williams, when discussing fire brigade matters in Wanganui this week. INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED. FIRE IN A BILLIARD ROOM. fBY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] PAHIATUA. Friday. The police are investigating a case of alleged attempted incendiarism at Mr. C. W. Smith's billiard saloon in Wakeman Street. A fire that had apparently been smouldering for some time was detected before any great damage had been done when Mr. Smith went to open the premises yesterday morning.