FIRES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20039, 4 March 1927, Page 10

FIRES.

BLAZE AT PAPATOETOE. FIVE-ROOMED HOUSE DESTROYED. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, March 3. Between 4 and 5 o’clock this morning a five-roomed house at Papatoetoe, owned by S. Green, of Ponsonby, and occupied by J. W. Deas, was totally destroyed by fire. The house was insured for £IOOO in the New Ze tland Insurance Company. The cause of the outbreak is unknown. Mr Deas was alone in the house at the time, and was awakened by smoke, which had come through a ventilator in the roof. He found the kitchen full of smoke and in flames, and had time to save only a few personal effects. LARGE STACK DESTROYED. OWNER’S HEAVY LOSS. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, March 3. A large stack containing between 30 and 40 tons of prime meadow hay standing on Fairmount Park farm, at Henderson, and owned by Mr Insley, of Swanson, was destroyed by fire in the early hours of this morning. It is supposed that the cause of the fire was the heating of the stack, resulting in spontaneous combustion, and so far as can be ascertained, there was no insurance on the hay. Mr Insley acquired the crop from the owner of the farm while it was growing. and had cut and stacked it only four or five weeks ago. JOINERY FACTORY DESTROYED. ABSENCE OF WATER SUPPLY. (Special to Daily Times.) WELLINGTON, March 3. A two-storey joinery factory in Tennyson avenue, Taita, belonging to Messrs E. L. Fuge and W. M. Jackson, was totally destroyed by fire shortly after midnight last night. The building, machinery, and contents were valued at about £I3OO, the building being insured with the Royal Insurance Company for £9OO. The cause of the fire is unknown, and, owing to the district having no water supply, the Lower Hutt Fire Brigade, which was notified, could not render assistance, and did not attend. HOUSE BURNED AT PORT CHALMERS At 2 a.m. yesterday the Port Chalmers Fire Brigade was summoned to a fire in Bernicia street. The firemen discovered a five-roomed bouse ablaze, the flames shooting through the roof. A good water pressure was immediately available, but the fire was beyond control, and the house and its contents were destroyed. The building was owned by Mr F. R. Fordham, but he and his wife find family were away for the night. When they left the place at 7 o’clock the previous evening everything was in the usual good order. The house and furniture was insured for the small sum of £250 in the Norwich Union office.