SUDDEN FIRE OUTBREAK
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION IN WOOL ROOM PA NEW PLYMOUTH, Jan. 23. Started by spontaneous combustion in a heap of sorted wool, a sudden raging fire swept through a new wool room at the Waitara freezing works of Thomas Borthwick and Sons Australia, Ltd., shortly before 10.20 last night. Although it was brought under control in less than 40 minutes, and mainly extinguished within another hour, a large quantity of wool was burned and extensive structural damage done to the room, which was only re No lt reliable P estlmate of the damage could be obtained today, but it is known that many thousands of pounds weight of wool was burned and that the steel-supported roof will rec iuire extensive reconstruction. According to works officials, everything was insured, the wool room is an unpartitioned space 120 feet by 80 feet which occupied most of the top floor ot the netv three-storied fellmongery wing at th The°fire caused no halt today at the works, which is at present at the height of the season. Killing continued at th usual rate this morning.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27296, 24 January 1950, Page 6
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