DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
BLAZE IN MATIERE. SEVERAL PREMISES DESTROYED. fly Telegram) —Press ABfnrir.tion.'* TAUMARUNUI, Monday. At 2 o’clock on Sunday morning a disastrous fire broke out in Riddell’s billiard room at Matierc, spreading to Gordon’s drapery shop and grocery on one side, and a bakery and tearooms on tho other side. The blaze spread from there to H. Piercy’s bootmaker’s shop, an unoccupied "butcher's shop, and an unoccupied blacksmith’s shop, all of which were destroyed. Nothing was saved except the contents of the bakery and bootmaker’s shop. Two motor cars and a motor lorry were also saved. A motor cycle was destroyed. The origin of the fire is unknown. The insurances are not available.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16816, 7 June 1926, Page 5
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