Three Buildings Razed at Waitotara
WANGANUI, Jan. 4. Three old buildings on the main street of Waitotara, 23 miles north of Wanganui, were completey destroyed when the district's most serious fire blazed from midnight to dawn today. With little water available, fire brigades from Waverley and Wanganui could do little more than check the spread of the blaze which, at one time, threatened to destroy the Waitotara Hotel, next to the burned bloek, and spread aeross the street. The buildings destroyed were a billiard room, with living quarters at the back, occupied . by a Maori family; .a two-storeyed building partly occupied by spinster sisters, and a.smail groeery owned by the sisters. The population of the village turned out en masse and saved the contdnts of the buildings, which were all old and built of wood. No^estimate of the loss had been made this morning, and it is not known whethnr the buildings were cpvered by insurance. •
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 January 1949, Page 5
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