DESTRUCTION BY FIRE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19413, 23 August 1926, Page 10

DESTRUCTION BY FIRE.

CASE I NT £ AM Ab E Dv THE "r t l /--rJ fi'.l* \ 1 ■ / j ,>/ * . } [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS -ASS6crAOION:] f . : : - .. / :* INVEfeCARGnJL.«S4tttr&*. At 1.30 o'clock this morriirrg -a' fire occurred in the Sugar of Milk and Casein Company's new factory at Edendale.- It started in the packing room and rapidly spread to the stocks. This part of the building was gutted and the drying plant was destroyed. The workmen, by great efforts, saved the main building and the valuable machinery. t ' : - • r'v~; It 'is impossible at present to estitaalw the loss. The building and contents "were covered In the Guardian office. ' ' i The factory, a ferroconcrete structure, was.tiompl6ted;;ab'out a yeat ago to replace the original building, which was destroyed by fire: ■ '■ | OUTBREAK IN CHRISTOHURGH; TWO-STOREYED BUILDING, • .7 ■; ■' [BY TELEGHAPH.-—OWN CORRESPONDENT.)]'. CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. A two-storeyed ' wooden-•dwellings in Lower ifigh Street was discovered on fire at 11.51 last night. The outbreak - originated on the ! first floor . and spread throughout the'building, which'was" considerably damaged. The occupiers .were Maddren Bros., rope manufacturers, and the house was used for picking over waste . products.' • ■ . The building was owned by the Countess De La Pasture, who lives in England. The contents we"-e covered in an insurance office 'in Australia. LOSS OF "A DWELLING, INO MEANS OF FIGHTING FIRE [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.'] j 'j -GORE, Saturday, » A (Swelling of six rooms, owned by- Mr. Murray McNoe, was destroyed 'i by fire j at North Ch'atton. There wire no firefigbting appliances available. . The-, in-. I surance, on the house was £BOO .in - the' I Farmers' Mutual ..Office, . .. ...