FIRE IN THE CITY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3088, 19 May 1917, Page 6

FIRE IN THE CITY

BLAZE IN WAKEFIELD STREET. \ At 9.55 o'clock last evening the Fire Brigade received a call, to 108 Wakefield Street, where a quantity of general merchandise on the ground floor had caught fire. Messrs. Fulton and Co., general merchants, were the occupiers of the floor, and a greater portion of their stock was destroyed belore the lire was put out. The building -was a threestoryed brick warehouse, and the other floors were occupied by Messrs. G. W. Guthrie and Coi, leather merchants, and the Now Zealand Acetyleno Gas Lighting- Co., Ltd. The firo originated in somo cases of rubbish, and soon spread to the other contents of the room and to the -walls, which were badly damaged. The firo was kspt on the first floor, and the damage to the upper, parts of the building and to its contents was not g The stock and fittings of Messrs. Fulton and Co. weroinsuied for .£350 in the Phoenix Office and for .£7OO with the Standard Insurance Company. Ine building is owned Guthrie, Bowden and Co., of Dunedin, and the amount for which it is insured was not known. '■- •The Fire Brigade received a call shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday morning to an ei.ht-rootned house at .-31 - Constable Sheet occupied by tTilliani Charm■rrocor. An electric iron had been left ES ehed on all- night n the kitchen, nnd burnt though <**'table.-, The. Ktchen and contents were-badly burnttat no further damage was done The is owned by Mr. Heath, of RjraU B the stock is i°s«" d '. fo^ff\?°Vi r e furniture for JilSh in the Sun lire Office. The insurances on the- dwelling are not avnilable. . '