DESTROYED BY FIRE
STORE AND POST OFFICE EXPLOSION OF AMMUNITION ‘Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND. July 20. The general store and post office, conducted by A. and L. Scholium, at Puhoi, near Warkworth. was completely destroyed by Are early (his morning. When first observed by n neighbour the fire had a good hold. A quantity of gelignite and detonators was stored in the building, and the detonators exploded during the fire, also shotgun ammunition, the pellets being found on the other side of the river after the fire.
Only the safe and the scales from the store were saved. Two safes in the Post Office behind the store were destroyed. The insurances, so far as known, are £IOOO on the building and contents with the Alliance Company.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23866, 21 July 1939, Page 6
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