Timaru

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 13, Issue 7, 13 February 1908, Page 14

Timaru

(From our own correspondent.) ss#jr « vrs 5 w*tf Veelin^ Tk&t*" *"»*« haS been recei - d ! n nf thr S o^ ct bS, to *» instrumentalists of thl town have voluJteS their services, and the evening should he TZ^%^ *„rZ he JL roatest fire that h as been witnessed in Timaru during the memory of the present generation took place on Wednesday last, when tine offices and warehouse of the Canter/bury Farrrers' Co-operative ISt ciation were completely gutted. At 5.30p m ?he laS of -the employees,- just' as they were' leaving,- noticed a thick haae of smoke issuing from the drapery depart! ment. ..The alarm was at once given and notwith standing the efforts of the full strength of 'the Fire Brigade, by 8 o'clock the fire had swept through the biuilding)s from Strathallan to Beswick street only leaving, standing the four , colossal outside walls to mark the site of what had been a few hours previously the largest and most heavily stocked warehouse in South Canterbury. The insurance • totalled „ about £'60,0 C,O, and beyond the unavoidable dislocation -of business no great loss will be suffered by the Association I '® shareholders. All the books- and papers were saved, the members of the staff, under the- direction of Mr. A.- Wilson .(accountant and acting manager)- and Mr. Lack (caslfler), being responsible for this t The

employees' were all at work again next morning, business being resumed • ■in the old premises, Cains Terrace, which had been vacated six and a half years agp^