FIRE IN AUCKLAND.
OPERA HOUSE DESTROYED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. A lire, which broke out in Fuller’s Opera House shortly after eleven o’clock last evening, is attributed to a fuse blowing out in the switchboard behind the stage, igniting a curtain, from which the flames quickly spread, to the upper portion of the theatre. The fire had secured such'a firm hold that in a few minutes part of the building was like a furnace. With the burning of the roof tons of debris was hurled into the body of the theatre. The major portion of the building was left in a state of practically complete destruction, A hard-fighting brigade succeeded in bringing completely under control a fire that threatened to. lie a serious menace to the adjoining buildings. So quickly did the flames spread after the curtain became, ablaze that ■three persons'within the building, W. A. Singe, (stage manager), .Mrs-Singe, and Diamond (scenic artist) had barely time to escape. In getting out, Diamond received burns on the arms.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 4 December 1926, Page 5
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