FIRE AT AUCKLAND.
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A firei at Hie promises of John Burns and Co., hardware merchants, at. eight o'clock this morning resulted in damage estimated roughly at between £IOOO and 20C0, mainly by smoke andfwaler. The brigade's prompt action saved what threatened to be a disastrous conflagration. The lire was caused by a light from a gas jot spreading along a pipe and up two storeys, igniting inflammable material in the vicinity.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15747, 11 February 1922, Page 5
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77FIRE AT AUCKLAND. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15747, 11 February 1922, Page 5
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