FACTORY DESTROYED
DAMAGE AMOUNTS TO £4OOO (Pec Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Damage estimated at £4OOO was caused by a fire at midnight in a barrel factory in Gillies Avenue, next to Newmarket school. The factory was owned by Mr. P. G. Wolfe, of Onehunga, and was constructed oi concrete blocks and iron. It was stacked with completed barrels, and many- others in the course of construction, and also much dry timber. • •
The principal item of loss was valuable machinery which was totally destroyed, and was worth over £2OOO. The building and contents were insured in the Koval and South British offices lor a total of £3OOO.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16807, 21 November 1928, Page 7
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