GREAT WOOL FIRE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1961, 19 January 1914, Page 5

GREAT WOOL FIRE.

STACK OF 2000 BALM AiiLAZti. (By TelectaDb,-Press AES.ocittt.iou,! Napier, January 17; A very narrow escape from a mum conflagration occurred at Messrs. Murray, Itoberts and ' q,'k wool store at Port Almriri on Saturday aftsrnowi A , _ large number of nwu were working in " thovsiorc shortly aiVr -j. p i» , v,heri an . itmnenso heapof baled ww.', stacked in .f. the yard, and estimated to contain about 2000 bales, burst into Jlames, Tlso men at once, set to work to chock the outbreak, bat sucli a task was far beyond their power, and tiio Port Brigade were suinrooiieil. The lire-figli'tc-rs were promptly «n the scene, and soon had n good pressure of water playing on the burning mass. The .. flames, however, had a <Wy strong hold,' and for a long time it looked as if. the • firs was going to gain the mastery. As a matter of fact tiio flames burned so fiercely that tho.v land already entered the main hitiMin.g and oommewed to destroy the largo quantity ;>f wool stored there. After half au hour's strenuous exertion, however, the brigade's etfai'ts were crowned with success, and •tl» flames were subdued. . The "save" «ns a reararicaMy good one, and lite brigade deservo to bfl congratulated on the result of their labours. The large store is choei: full of wool, and bad the outbreak not been discovered sv> quickly* Or had it fX'-curied. at night time, the consequences would iwturallv have been very tenons. Tho total damage is confined to about bales of wool, and the destnictioii of tbo largo window through *y uc « n « flatties entered the main building. 1I«J won! was much danuigrd by lire ami water, Tho insurants were itot available this afternoon. "The I.omlftH Dniiy ersphic" stntM. nm ltr dale 121b .Number, W3 :~W .1 ■ the time come when unr I.m B.imilm will no longer be nmlccir CoiUin . i w that » sreat number of fires aie to-;lav niponi in the M W itli*«t tl* . ■of the man in thc-fcrass heiuie.. liy wj»»" , of the many f'.re ' which are m\ tin ussi-to. At <le won stratinn held vosterday at i3la-dcii. >.f thp "Gilw" Chnniwl i„xt\iiKin4iev, thsm piles of inflammable- motto- w«r« paCt nut out in ten *!>c"iuj« who" "1 f l '" Ce? T..ARRV AXJ) CO I.Tft. All'* . Stmt, Wellington, wsle Zealand Agents.—Advt. ■