FIRE AT RABAUL
SEVERAL PREMISES DESTROYED (United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright) CANBERRA, August 23 It is reporled from Rabaul, Xev Guinea that Messrs W. R. Carpenter an ,l company's store—a three-storey building —was destroyed by lire today Most of tile local records relalinc’to expropriated German properties were consumed by the flames. However the main records relating to these properties, which are of ail aggregate value of £2,500,000, are housed at Canberra. The premises burned like timber. The lire also destroyed the adjoining shop of a baker and the ofllces of a dentist, a solicitor and an accountant. The damage is estimated at £OO,OO :. The company's copra stocks were , saved, but the contents or the freezers, .1 „ ieat vegetables and dairy produce, were’ destroyed, resulting in a shorta -c of fresh food for the local population until a ship arrives from Sydney.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20892, 25 August 1939, Page 9
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142FIRE AT RABAUL Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20892, 25 August 1939, Page 9
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