FIRES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19957, 26 November 1926, Page 15

FIRES.

A TIMELY SAVE

OUTBREAK AT CHRIST-

CHURCH.

SMOKE CAUSES DAMAGE,

(Special to Daii. Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, November 25. The timely intervention of the City Fire Brigade early this morning prevented extensive damage being done to riic building in Hereford street owned and occupied by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. (Ltd.) and the Union Assurance Society. The building is a three-storeyed one of brick, and a fire had broken out in a room on the third floor where the papers and stationery were housed. An attempt to fight the lire from the outside proved fruitless, and the firemen then made for the interior of the building. Their efforts were hampered by the smoke which filled the corridor leading to the seat of the fire, but the blaze was soon extinguished. It is estimated that over £2OO worth of damage was done. Considerable damage resulted to the equipment on the second floor owing to the amount of water which had percolated through. The roof was also damaged by smoke and heat. The building is insured for £O9OO with the Union Assurance Society, for which the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Ltd.) is the agent. The stationery was insured for £550, the fixtures for £3OO, and the furniture, books, typewriters, etc., for £3OO, all with the Union Assurance Society.

TEN-ROOMED HOUSE DESTROYED.

A FIREMAN INJURED,

(Special to ails Times.) AUCKLAND, November 25. A two-storeyed wooden house of about 10 rooms, situated at Narrow' Neck, was totally destroyed by fire this morning. The house, which is part of the estate of the late Frederick Burgess, was divided into three flats. The upper storey was ticcupied by Mrs Burgess and her family, consisting of three sons and one daughter. A member of the Fire Brigade, G. Whitley, received a cut on one of his hands through being struck by falling glass. The cut was severe enough to require several stitches. The house was insured in the Routh British .Office for £IBOO, and the furniture, belonging to Mrs Burgess, was insured in the same office for £SOO. A LOCAL CALL. A call was received by the City Fire Brigade at 7.25 a.m. yesterday to the premises of Messrs Foster and Higginson, butchers, at the corner of Forth and Union streets, where a receptacle containing boiling fat had caught fire. The brigade's services were not required, and no carnage was done.