SOUTH TARANAKI NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1930, Page 7

SOUTH TARANAKI NEWS

■ . ■’"*< •. - ' • -JM.' FIRE IN UNION STREET. "■ . ' OUTBREAK SOON SUPPRESSED. What might have proved a serious outbreak of fire in the Union Street business area of Hawera last night was suppressed in its incipient stages by the brigade. The premises damaged were G. R. Horsburgh’s Cut Rate grocery, and J. ,C. Smith’s auction mart, while the Central Hotel overhead and 8. P. Hart’s fancy goods store were affected by smoke. The call was received at 8.6 p.m. and the brigade was almost immediately on the scene, flames being noticed through the windows of the mart. The seat of the fire appeared to be at a locked wooden door in a- concrete wall separating the grocery store from the auction mart. Several rolls of linoleum in the mart and the shelves near the door lit the store were blazing. By the judicious use of the pump hose in the mart and the small first aid outfit in the store the fire was .oon controlled and but little damage was done by water. The damage in the grocery store appeared to be confined to several shelves of tinned and bottled goods nd perishable goods probably affected bv smoke. In the mart some linoleums and wire mattresses were burned.

Smoke issuing from the ceiling and beneath the rafters of a house in Morrissey Street yesterday afternoon startled a passerby, who thought the house was afire. A nearby alarm was broken and the brigade arrived to discover that th* water in a saucepan of meat left over a lighted gas ring had evaporated and that the meat was burning, filling' the house with dens® volumes of smoke. The house was occupied py Mr. A. T. Schinkel. . PATEA MUNICIPAL LIBRARY. . FUND FOR FURNISHING. Mr. A. T. Christensen presided at the monthly meeting of the Pa tea Municipal library committee, when it was announced that £2OO had been placed to the committee’s credit by .he executors of the Hunter Shaw estate. The money will be used for shelving, floor coverings and general furnishings,, any balance to be given to the Plunket Society. The sub-committee appointed to deal with the applications for the position of librarian selected Miss Minton from a large number of applicants. Now that the wall around the library is completed it was decided to have photographs taken to forward to Mr. Warren, executor, of the Hunter Shaw estate. PATEA PERSONALS. Mr. M. Hoult is visiting Patea. Mrs. W. C. Gunny is spending a holiday in Wellington. > Miss Minton was the successful applicant for the position of librarian;

Mr. Walter Reed had the misfortune to cut his face severely with a pinch bar at the freezing works.

Mr. J. H. Cronin has returned from Auckland.