DAMAGE BY FIRE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20889, 3 June 1931, Page 8

DAMAGE BY FIRE.

LARGE DWELLING DESTROYED OCCUPANTS' > HURRIED EXIT. [from our own correspondent.] CAMBRIDGE. Tuesday. Between midnight and one o'clock this morning a 10-roomed wooden house owned and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. William Campbell, of Flat Park, Leamington, was destroyed by fire, together with the whole of the contents. The only occupants at the time, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, only awakened barely in time to escape with a few personal effects. When Mr. and Mrs. Campbell retired about {3.30 p.m. there was no sign of fire. It is thought that the outbreak was the result of a defective chimiiey. The house and outbuildings were insured for £I3BO in the South British Office, while a cover of £3OO on the furniture was held in the same office. COUNTRY HOUSE BURNED. PRACTICALLY NOTHING SAVED. [from our own correspondent.] WAIUKU, Tuesday. A five-roomed house at Glenbrook was destroyed by fire at about five o'clock this morning. The house was owned by Mr. Martyn Hogan, and occupied by Mr. Hogan and his family. A married daughter, who was visiting her parents, was awakened by her infant child crying, and when she opened the kitchen door flames and smoke burst out. She aroused the others in the house, but there was only time to save some bedding and a few personal belongings before the house had to be abandoned. A detached wash-house, was also destroyed.

The house and wash-house were insured for £SOO in the New Zealand Office, and the contents for £3OO in the same office.

LOSS OF STATIONERY STOCK. OUTBREAK IN ROTORUA, SHOP. [BY TELEGRAM.—OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] ROTORUA, Tuesday. A fire occurred at half-past nine last evening in Mr. J. W. Kurney's stationery shop in Hinemoa Street. The fire originated in a storeroom. The building was not burned, but the stock of books, magazines and toys suffered severely, the damage being estimated at over £3OO. Considerable damage was done by smoke to the shop. COKE HEAP ALIGHT. GAS COMPANY'S WORKS. Three leads of hose were played continuously yesterday upon a heap of 1500 tons of coke which caught fire at the Gas Company's works, Freeman's Bay, shortly after 8 a.m.

It is believed that the fire was caused by spontaneous combustion in a heap of coal slack near the coke. It was found impossible to check the fire with the appliances available and a call was made to the city fire brigade. .Men were sent down who fixed the leads of hose for use by members of tlio works staff.

It is stated that it is not unusual for the coke heap to burn.- The heap smokes profusely, but no danger is attached to it. It, is expected that th'e outbreak will be subdued this morning.