WOODEN BUILDING BURNED
"RECOGNISED AS DEATH TRAP.” By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, June 19. An old dilapidated wooden building of two storeys at the corners of Manse and High Streets, formerly the Occidental Hotel, but later occupied by Mann’s News Agency, Wilson’s Boot Depot, the All Night Pharmacy, Ball’s Marble Bar and Cameron’s Boarding-house, was partially gutted by fire early this morning. The ‘building had long been recognised as a death trap, and it was fortunate the boarding-house was vacated yesterday morning. All the shops were Hooded with water, but little damage was done by the fire. The insurances are not available.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1928, Page 6
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101WOODEN BUILDING BURNED Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1928, Page 6
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