FIRES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18232, 17 November 1924, Page 11

FIRES.

MOTOR GARAGE.DESTROYED.

•(PEES3 ASSOCIATION .TELJCISAIC.) AUCKLAND, November 15. Fire at Avondalo last : night .destroyed a large motor-bus garage owned by C. T. Pooley, together with two passenger motor-buses, two.. heavy motorlorries, two motor-bus- tops, and a house adjoining owifed 'by G. -. Pooley and occupied by L.Tieiriey. The General Omnibus' Company, which, occupied the. front portion of the buildins. suffered, losses r amounting to £2OOO. One motor-bus was saved. One valued at £7OO, and another valued at £600,, were destroyed. There was no insurance on that valued at £7OO. '■■■•.

Tho motor-lorry, owned by Leighton, a contractor, and a motor-lorry, owned by Pooley, were destroyed. A siscylinder car owned by C'flu static Douglas, valued at £ooo. and insured for £250, and a two-seater, owned by the General Omnibus Company, were destroyed. The motorrbus tops burned were-owned by Mr McCarthy, a t£xiproprielor and Ben Mason. Tierncy' and his wifo and ' ehildron lost everything. The house was-not insured. The. General Omnibus Company had been in existence only three months.' '

TAR DISTILLERY DESTROYED. (bt cable—pbebs ; association—copyright) (australia!? akd £.£. cable ausjociatios.) (Received November 16th.,! 5.5 p.m.) ' SYDNEY, November 16. Demcric's tar distillery at Newcastle was destroyed by 'fire.; A' tremendous blaze raged all night. 'Tho brigade, helped by a favourable wind', wore able to keep the .fire from spreading, to .the •adjoining premises' and made a good save. The damage amounts-to ; many thousands of pounds. . "' ' ,

'(r-HESS ASSOCIATION 'rELEGa^M.) • DUNBDIN,'. November 15. ■ W,061 valued, at £600,. 300 bags- of .chaff, wool presses,. . and'. sheafing machines were-lost in the Teviot. woolshed file. Th<? building was insured in the-Sta,te Fire.lnsuranco Office; • Wellington. '•■' ...

THE OSAKA OUTBREAK. . (ST' CiiiE— FHEB3 ASSOCIATIOK—COrXIIICHT) r _ ■• (ebutbb's telegrams.) ' • - ';; , TOKYO, November.l 4. ■Later reports regarding--the Osaka hotel firo show that many of tbo guests, including three British and one American, escaped unhurt. The earlier reports tjhat the adjacent building of the Bankers' Club was destroyed, are untrue.