LARGE MOTOR GARAGE DESTROYED BY FIRE.
Per Press Association. PALMERSTON N., March 6. A disastrous fire broke out in the Ford Motor Company’s large garage in Rangitikei and Cuba Streets this evening. Although the front portion of the building was not seriously damaged, the large rear garages and workshops were gutted. The fire was most spectacular. A sensation was caused by a loud explosion of an acetone welding gas container, windows in the vicinity being broken. Six new and fifteen second-hand cars were destroyed, and also a number of others garaged for different owners. J. Reid, a garage worker, who discovered the outbreak, was very badly burned on the left # hand. Later. It was reported that twentyseven second-hand and seven new cars were destroyed. The water pressure was only 501 b, and later dropped to 261 b at midnight, when the blaze was completely under control.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19013, 7 March 1930, Page 10
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