FIRE AT WAIMATE.
OUTBREAK QUICKLY SUPPRESSED. ,
(SPECIAL TO THB PRISS.)
WAIMATE, January 17
While', returning to Oaniaru from Timaru via Waimate shortly before one o'clock on Sunday morning a party ot tennis players noticed a wooden building, an old butcher's 6hop at the north end of Queen street, on tire. The alarm was given and the brigade turned out very promptly. The outbreak had a good hold when the brigade arrived on the scene, but there was a good pressure of water and the flames were soon under control. Tho fire is believed to have originated about tho centre of the building in which was stored some bales of hay, or in an old engine-room attached to the centre of tho building. It is not yet known if anything was stored in the engine-room: Remarkably little damage .was done to the building, which is believed to be insured (for about £IOO. It is noteworthy that the shop is one of the oldest buildings in the town, and it is reported that it was one of the few that escaped the flames at the time of the big fire which 1 swept Waimate. It is owned by the Misses Cameron.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18902, 18 January 1927, Page 9
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199FIRE AT WAIMATE. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18902, 18 January 1927, Page 9
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