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DAMAGE BY FIRE.

TWO ROOMS GUTTED. OUTBREAK IN EPSOM HOUSE. Two rooms of a six-roomed house at 23, Orakau Avenue, Epsom, were gutted by fire shortly after seven o'clock last evening. There was no one in the house at the time, the occupier, Mr. J. A. Rope, being away at Tuakau. The alarm was given by telephone to the Mount Roskill brigade. The burning rooms were at one side of tbe house, and the outbreak was confined to them without difficulty. The other four rooms wero not damaged. The house is insured for £9OO and the furniture for £2OO.

MINOR FIRES IN CITY. LITTLE DAMAGE CAUSED. Two minor outbreaks s>f fire occurred in the city during the week-end. Woodwork caught alight at the bottom of a lift well in tho Mission Buildings, 48, Wellesley Street West, at 7.50 o'clock last evening, but the fire was subdued without damage to property. A counter was charred by a fire in a jnusic shop at 230, Karangahape Road, about 10 p.m. on Saturday, but the outbreak was suppressed by tho central brigade.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21142, 28 March 1932, Page 8

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DAMAGE BY FIRE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21142, 28 March 1932, Page 8

DAMAGE BY FIRE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21142, 28 March 1932, Page 8