FIRE AT WAIROA CAUSES HEAVY LOSS
OLD BUILDING BURNED. : WHOLE PLACE GUTTED. Press Association—Ccwriebfc j WAIROA, This,Pay. ; /A disastrous fire broke out aft 4.30, xft.m,'on Suhday* in an _old wooden. "block sk'nown m Corkill's" buildings, .practically the wholei being gutted. %he upstairs portion of the (bidding -was occupied by a cabaret and the Druids lodlge room andl the shops -were occupied by McLeodi (con- I fectioner),. Carr ' (Watchmaker), Gay (IJpholsterer), Hague (Taidor), Storey (Auctioneer). •Messrs CorkiiU and MfcLeod . are heavy losers as also are the Druids who lost their piano and all;' Wge| • property and regalia. The other occupiers saved' most of their contents. The building waa owned by Mir.J. Car. kill, , ivlayor of, Wairtoa aind. the amounts of insurance are not avaaliable* ,
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 38, 18 February 1929, Page 5
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