FIRE ABOARD SOMERSET
LITTLE DAMAGE DONE. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, May 5. An outbreak of fire occurred among 3,000 bags of copra in an upper cargo space on the New Zealand Shipping Company’s Somerset which was completing loading for London. The fire was extinguished before any serious damage had resulted. An examination revealed that two or three sacks of copra were charred. The copra was loaded at Auckland and will be dried and sent on by another boat.
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Southland Times, Issue 20171, 6 May 1927, Page 7
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79FIRE ABOARD SOMERSET Southland Times, Issue 20171, 6 May 1927, Page 7
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