FIRE IN PACKING SHEDS

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVIII, Issue 49, 12 January 1940, Page 3

FIRE IN PACKING SHEDS

A GOOD SAVE B'UT CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE. CHRISTCHURCH, Last night. Fire last night gutted the woolpacking sheds of the fellmongery department at the Belfast works of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Co. The contents of the sheds, including about 100 bales of wool, some 42 bales of stockinet and three wool presses, were destroyed. Prompt action by the company’s fire brigade and co-operation between the works staff and firemen from the Central Fire Station confined the outbreak to the packing sheds. Valuable wool driers at one end of the gutted building were not damaged. The fire had a good hold when discovered, and the inflammable contents of the sheds made a great blaze. The building was of brick and corrugated iron with a wooden floor and was soon burning fairly fiercely. Most of the woodwork inside was greasy from the wool, and this helped the rapid spread of the flames. Why run the risk? Insure with the Norwich Union Fire Office. All classes of risks and Pellow, Agents, Waipawa. *