WELLINGTON FIRE
APARTMENT HOUSE BLAZE. Electric Telegraph—Press Association WPIILl NGTON,' dan. 3. With scarcely time to grab more than a lew of their personal belongings and wearing little more than wraps thrown over th-ear night attire the residents of an apartment house, •No. 255, The T err ace, Wellington, known as Gloucester House, lost practically all their belongings in a fir© which l broke out at about 4 o'clock this morning. Sweeping swiftly through the wooden building of 21 rooms, the file gutted almost every room and caused appreciable damage to the rest of the main buckling. The only apartment to escaj*© is that in the small annexe. No one was injured though some of the residents are suffering from the shook of the experience and others are feeling the effects of the thick emoke which filled the house. The firemen tor a while faced a dangerous situation, the adjacent wooden buildings being threatened. Olie caught alight under the eaves but the damage was not great.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXII, Issue 15240, 5 January 1943, Page 4
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