A DISASTROUS BLAZE IN WELLINGTON.—WHITCOMBE AND TOMBS' STATIONERY AND PRINTING PREMISES DEMOLISHED.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7, 14 August 1912, Page 21

A DISASTROUS BLAZE IN WELLINGTON.— WHITCOMBE AND TOMBS' STATIONERY AND PRINTING PREMISES DEMOLISHED.

The destructive .Imrncler of the lire Is graphically Indicated In th.' photograph reproduced. From Lambton Quay the tiremen carried on a plucky tight. The two leads with weak jets were later doubled, ","mJndhe', stood a mere th.' men who held lead. on the ders or who forced their way In through the front windows of first door met a tierce wilting it winch they need as tiremen should. In the end he pper portion of 1 .'! b \;., " r /". rootless box with four walls, the tlreswept steel girders shaken but still spanning the gulf; all the rest of the upper doors and their contents vanished in the furnace. With the exception of the dis htdgnient ot . ram. nt.il ma. nr. a ><l > ks fl nk n, the great -Inthian columns, the front wall, with Its bold columns and Imposing ornament, still stood bravely looking out on Lambton Quay, but it was a mock grandeur. 1 here was no substance behind it. nan iat.it Kernel, and left tile scarred husk. The ground floor only remains.