LIME CARGO ON FIRE
VESSEL NOT DAMAGED.
Spontaneous combustion among a consignment of quicklime started a small fire in the forehold of tho Union Company's ferry stearaor Mararoa as she lay at the Wellington wharves yesterday. At Lyttelton on Monday about 100 bags ot lime were loaded, and a quantity naa been discharged yeste.day when fumes were eeen to issue from the hold about 9.45 a.ra. As more lime was discharged tho fumes became suffocating, anct the bags at tho bottom were found to be smouldering. The Fire Brigade was tele, phoned for, and on arrival the firemen worked in .spells, wearing smoke helmets, and shovelled the loose lime into coal baskets. About 20 baskelsfid tad been tipped into the harbour when whniation II! received from the IlaAourmastor that this could not be allowed. B> noo» tho remaining lime, about a dozen braoketsful, had been hoisted on. deck and carted away. The aseumphou u; thathe limo became wet while it lay » «™ ks at Lyttelton on Saturday and Sunday. not damaged.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 196, 8 May 1918, Page 4
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170LIME CARGO ON FIRE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 196, 8 May 1918, Page 4
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