DOMINION NEWS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXVII, Issue 2814, 26 July 1927, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS

EARLY MORNING FIRE.

AT WHAKAREWAREWA

TEA KIOSK DESTROYED.

ROTORUA, this day.

The Whakarcwarewa tea kiosk, an extensive building, was burned to the ground at five o'clock this morning. A heavy wind was blowing with torrential rain.

When the brigade arrived it was hopeless to try and save the building, and they concentrated on the surrounding dwellings which were effectively isolated.

The kiosk was owned by Nathan and Co., Auckland, and was leased by Mrs Donaldson, who used the structure for refreshments and dancing. The carved house adjoining ,was not damaged. The insurances are unknown.

BIG WELLINGTON BLAZE. TWO MIRACULOUS ESCAPES. HEAVY LOSS OF PROPERTY. (By Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, this day, Two firemen had a miraculous escape from sudden death during a fire which did several thousands of pounds’worth of damage to a building In Willis Street, at an early hour on Sunday morning. . The men were working in the lift well, the lift being then at the third, floor. Suddenly they saw a blindingflash from a fused electrical switch. They jumped clear just in time to bo missed by the heavy lift as it crashed down the well.

The building, which is at the end of a blind avenue, is a brick three-storey structure occupied by Stokes’ Sign Service, the Fluenzol Proprietary, Ltd., and Harringtons, all of whom lost heavily. The outbreak made a spectacular picture, flames and dense smoke pouring from the windows and through the roof of the main building." The brigade concentrated on saving the neighbouring premises, which it succeeded in doing.

The insurances include ' on the Fluenzol stock in the Northern Office, and £2OOO on Harringtons’ stock in the Liverpool and London and Globe Office.

A FATAL DRINK. METHYLATED SPIRITS FOR WHISKY. DEATH OF A MAORI. (By Telegraph—Press Association) HAMILTON, this day. The death occurred at Pangarau, near Ngaruawahia, yesterday) of a native named Mangaroa, aged 50, as the result of drinking methyltod spirits, which he apparently mistook for whisky.

RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYED. STEPS BY GOVERNMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association). DUNEDIN, this ffiay. It is announced that the Government has taken steps to relieve the unemployment position in Dunedin by providing immediate employment for 150 men. The Public Works Department will employ 120 men, mainly on road improvement work, and the Forestry Department will absorb 20. In addition to work being provided for the unemployed in Dunedin, the Public Works Department will engage 30 men at Invercargill on work for the Southland district.

HISTORIC MAORI MARK,

PROTECTION SOUGHT

NOT OF SUFFICIENT VALUE

(By Telegraph—Press Association). MASTERTON, this day.

Mr R, J. Barton, who applied to the Scenery Preservation Board on behalf of Whakataki natives to have the Wharepouri ’s mark on the Whakataki Beach protected, has received a reply from the board to the effect that the spot is not considered of sufficient historical interest to. justify protection. The Wharepouri’s mark is a sandstone pillar erected in 1842 to signify peace between’tho Mokau natives who were then in possession of Wellington and who had invaded Wairarapa, and the tribes of the East Coast who had been driven to seek the protection of the Hawke’s Bay tribes.