GREYMOUTH FIRE
TWO HOTELS DESTROYED. GREYMOUTH, Sunday. A spectacular fire in Richmond Quay started at 3.43 p.m. Breaking out upstairs in the Oriental Hotel, it quickly spread to the Criterion Hotel adjacent. Both wore wooden structures and were completely destroyed. The former had about ten rooms and the other about fourteen. The Oriental was owned by Mr Andrew Kyle, who is the present licensee. The Criterion was owned by Miss Rachel Mandl, of Hokitika, the licensee being Mr Albert Clarke. The Fire Brigade had. im chance of saving the hotels, bupAkept the fire from a number of cottages and outbuildings in. the rear and also from a brick structure, the Phoenix Chambers, adjoining the Oriental. At the wharf, fronting the hotels, was the ship To Aroha, whose cargo included explosives and benzine. The vessel was shifted. There was an insuran««F»n the Criterion buildings of £IOOO "-The Oriental was insured for an amount not yet ascertainable. — (P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 5 March 1934, Page 4
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