Electric Iron Causes Fire In Auckland Shop
AUCKLAND, Last. Night (P.A.).— A fire, which started in a small storeroom under a stairway at the back of the basement floor at the shop of Woolworths (New Zealand) Ltd., in Queen Street this morning, damaged a quantity of children's and women’s clothing and general merchandise.. An electric iron connected to a light socket which was inadvertently turn"d on when some of the lights in the building wore switched on, caused the outbreak. The damage has not yet been estimated.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 21 August 1950, Page 4
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