OUTBREAKS OF FIRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22098, 31 October 1933, Page 10

OUTBREAKS OF FIRE

MARBLE BAR DAMAGED BOARDERS’ HURRIED ESCAPE. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 30. A restaurant in Cuba street known as the Marble Bar was considerably damaged by fire early this morning. A policeman gave the alarm. The four occupants of a room above escaped in their night attire'on to the veranda of .the Hotel Bristol adjoining, in which three boarders in the northern wing (almost above the seat of the fire) were driven. from their rooms by lire, smoke, and water, one losing all his possessions. Good work by the brigade saved the Hotel Bristol, which, along with the Marble Bar, is owned by Messrs G. and F. London, of Petone, and insured in the State office. Mr Joseph Arnerich, the proprietor of the Marble Bar, was covered by a policy with the Norwich Union for £2160 on furniture, fittings, etc. STABLES DESTROYED INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED. (Per United Press Association i ASHBURTON, October 30. A fire, apparently of incendiary origin, occurred at William Morgan’s stables and outbuildings in Methven on Saturday night, the building, with four traction engine trailers, being destroyed. The insurances, with the Liverpool, London, and Globe office, were: On the buildings, £160; on the wagons, £3OO. The adjoining house was unoccupied. A peculiar feature is that the remains of a gig in a stall have been identified as having been removed from a section in an adjoining street, and the seat of the fire was apparently about the gig. TIMBER SHORTAGE During the British House of Commons Forestry debate, November 20, 1929, the following statement was made:--" There are to-day actually only four countries left in the whole wide world which are meeting their own timber requirements. They are Russia, Canada, the Scandinavian Peninsula, and Poland. Most of Russia’s supplies, are inaccessible, Scandinavia necessarily restricts cutting in accordance with production. Poland’s supplies are very limited, and Canada’s forests are not likely to be more than sufficient for her own and part of U.S.A.’s requirements in the near future.” It is obvious, therefore, that the softwood forests established by N.Z. Perpetual Forests, Ltd., are going to be very valuable when ready for realisation in the near future.—Advt.