Fire in Furniture Warehouse.— A fire started in a display window of McKenzie and Willis’s furniture warehouse about 10 o’clock last night when a paper covering a decorative lamp ignited. The Christchurch Fire Brigade extinguished the fire before damage resulted. The brigade was called to a chimney fire in a house occupied by Mr Vernon Willmott, 827 Colombo street, shortly after midnight this morning. There was no damage. The Sumner section of the Christchurch brigade was called out at 8.15 yesterday morning, a chimney being on fire at a house occupied by Mrs E. Nichols Stoke street.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24914, 29 June 1946, Page 2
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