DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17991, 9 April 1930, Page 6

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.

BIG BUILDING GUTTED.

OUTBREAK AT DANMEVIRKE. SEVERAL FIRMS SUFFER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DANNEVIRKE, Wednesday. A fire occurred shortly before one o’clock in wooden premises in the centre of the business area known as the Cosmopolitan Building, owned by Mr. Leo Stein and occupied by several tenants. The structure was badly gutted at the back and the loss to occupants of premises on the ground floor by smoke and water is estimated to run into a substantial figure. The fire apparently started downstairs and the flames ran up to the roof.

The occupants affected and the insurances are: Miss Dillon, milliner, stock and fittings, £227 in the State Office; A. Hannah and Co., ladie?’ outfitters, stock, £SOO in the South British Office; R. L. Bartlett and Co., boot importers, stock £3OO in the South British. and £950 in the State Office, with £250 in the State Office on the furniture and effects; A. Hendry and Co., confectioner, stock £550 in the South British Office; W. Chick, dentist, fittings, £2OO in the Norwich Union and £2OO in the Alliance Office; George Peters, tobacconist and hairdresser, insured in the Royal unknown; Watson and Sinclair, drapers, in whose premises the outbreak is presumed to have originated, stock, £llOO in the Royal Exchange; Miss ’McPhail, dressmaker, no insurbuilding was insured in the Alliance Office for £4400 and in the New Zealand Office for £I6OO. _ The plateglass was insured in the New Zealand Office for £l5O.