TIMBER YARD FIRE.
NUMBER OF EMPTY BOTTLES FOUND. AUCKLAND, August ft. The City Fire Brigade quickly suppressed a dangerous fire which broke out a 7 o’clock this morning in stacks of timber, the property of Messrs. Smith, and Smith, Ltd., on the waterfront. The blaze was seen from the harbour by passengers on a ferry, and in a few minutes it seemed as if the whole timber yard was alight. After suppressing the fire the brigade discovered a number of empty liquor bottles among the timber. The damage to the yards is not yet ascertainable, but work is temporarily suspended.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 7 August 1930, Page 5
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