FIRE ON STEAMER.
LITTLE DAMAGE DONE,
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) ' . TTMAEIT, This Day. At 12.15 o'clock a fire was discovered in the starboard side of No. 3 hold in. the steamer Westmoreland, lying at No. 3 wharf and loading frozen meat for Home. The vessel was' due to sail to-day. The vessel touched ground on the voyage from the Bluff to Dunedin in- May. last, and until last week was lying in Port Chalmers undergoing extensive repairs.
The ship loaded 50,000 carcases of meat here. *
The fire was amongst the flax loaded at Port Chalmers.
By seven o "clock the outbreak was snppressedj although the flax was still smouldering.
The outbreak will cause the steamer to be detained here till Saturday or Monday.
As far as can be ascertained the steamer has sustained no serious structural damage, and in the meantime meat loading operations are being continued.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13982, 19 November 1919, Page 5
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