FIRE AT LONGBURN
£4000 LOSS, IN FREEZING WOEKS,
(By Telegraph-Press Association.) Palmerston North, February 22. A firo broke out at midnight on Satur. day in the wool department, of tue Sngburn Freezing Works. Tho name* spread rapidly, and the buildings Lousme, the wool and fellmongcry plants, were completely gutted. A concrete, wall and the efforts of an amateur brigadesaved tho remainder of the works, la.it of the burned building had been erected only a few months. Fortunately there was not much wool or many skins in the store. ■ . The building and contents were insured in the London and Liverpool office for J!3000, but the building was much under-insured, and the loss » about J34000 Another outbreak of firo had occurred a week before. The causes of both fires are unknown.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 6
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129FIRE AT LONGBURN Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 6
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