DESTRUCTIVE FIRE
DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT £lOO,OOO SYDNEY, May 19. A fire broke out just before midnight in Langdon and Langdon’s timber yards at Kozelle Bay. The mill was destroyed. It was a three-storey woodand iron structure, and contained the most valuable plant in Australia. The damage is estimated at £lOO,OOO. By dogged fighting the firemen kept the flames from crossing a storm-water canal to the joinery mill, containing timber and machinery valued at many thousands. From a spectacular standpoint, Sydney has seen nothing finer, excepting the Sugar Company’s fire in 1918’. The surrounding neighbourhoods were illuminated almost like day.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18786, 21 May 1923, Page 11
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99DESTRUCTIVE FIRE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18786, 21 May 1923, Page 11
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