FIRE ON SHEEP STATION.
BUILDINGS destroyed. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, Thursday. The cookhouse, men’s dining room, married quarters, and four adjacent buildings on Mr 11. Y. Monro's Bankhouse Station were totally destroyed by fire on Tuesday night. The insurance totals £SOO. Shearing is still in progress on the station and difficulty is being experienced In providing the fifteen shearers with meals, especially as the water tanks fell and smashed the supply pipes. The homeslcad is half a mile distant from the scene of the fire.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 18764, 20 December 1935, Page 12
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