FIRES.
OUTBREAK AT FLOUR MILLS. (By Tdeeraph.-Prejs Association.) Oamaru, February 3. A fire broke out this afternoon in the engine-room of the largo Crown Flour Mills, tho property of Messrs. J. and T. Meek,' and soon the inside of the room was a mass of flames. Tho brigado wero called out, and. with a fine pressure of water, soon had the fire subdued. The building is of ston'o, but the wood-work is badlv destroyed. The big engine- suffered little or no damage. There is a largo lino of insurance in the Royal office on. the mill.
The London Daily Graphic" states, under date 12th' November. 1913:—Will the tim> como when our Fire Brigades will no longer be needed' Certain it is that a great number of fires are to-day nipped in the bud without the assistance °J ths man in the brass helmet, by means of tho many in.gonious fire extinguishers which nre on tho market. At a demonsfration held yesterday at Willesden, of the Galvo Chemical Extinguisher, three piles of inflammable matter were each nut out in ten seconds when in full flame LAERY AND CO., LTD.. Allen Street, Wellington, eolo New Zealand Agents.—Advt.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1975, 4 February 1914, Page 8
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195FIRES. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1975, 4 February 1914, Page 8
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