BIG BLAZE AT BLENHEIM
Hotel burned down. PBR' PRESS ASSOCIATION. BLENHEIM, March 22. Early. ou Sunday morning the Commercial Hotel, a wooden building m Grove road, was totally destroys . The outbreak was first noticed m the storeroom and had too great a hold for the inmates to check it. When the brigade arrived there was no hope or saving the hotel, which soon was a roaring moss of flames. The origin ot the fire is attributed to match-eating by rats. Very little of the P*r lsa ?J a effects of the hoarders was saved. The building was owned by the Marlborough Brewery Company, and occupied by Mr P. Creedon. The insurances arc; Buildings, £SOO in the Commercial Union office, £ouu in the Victoria office, £2OO in the Norwich Union office. The stock, furniture, and piano arc covered by £2to in the South British office.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10545, 23 March 1920, Page 4
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