COBURG MILLS BURNED
HUNDREDS OUT OF EMPLOY. MENT FIREMEN HELPLESS. By Telegraph.— Press Assn. —Copyright. MELBOURNE, July 21. More than half the premises of the Lincoln Knitting and Spinning Mills at Coburg, which covers acres, was completely destroyed by fire yesterday. The cause of the outbreak is a mystery. The foreman had just completed his final rounds shortly after 8 o’clock, and had locked up, when flames leapt from a far corner of the building. The foreman declares that everything in that corner was in order when he passed a few minutes earlier. The fire advanced so rapidly that firemen who were summoned from all the metropolitan stations were practically powerless, and confined their efforts to stopping the flames from spreading to the administrative block. Estimates of the damage caused by the fire range from £IOO,OOO to £500,000. Eight hundred employees will he out of work.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12196, 22 July 1925, Page 7
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