FIRES OVER WEEK-END

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 121, 20 February 1928, Page 6

FIRES OVER WEEK-END

OUTBREAK IN TINAKORI ROAD. Seven calls, six of which were to gorse fires, were received by the Wellington Fire Brigade on Saturday, while jesterday the brigade’s services were required to suppress two outbreaks, one being in Tiuakori Road and tlie other at a “pie-cart” in Martin Square. At 5.45 p.m. yesterday a fire broke out in a van in Martin Square used by Henry Johnson as a coffee stall. The van was slightly damaged by fire and water, the supposed cause of the outbreak being the over-heating of a kerosene stove. The brigade was called out at 7.41 o’clock last evening to 184 Tinakori Road, Thorndon, to a two-storey building used as a boardinghouse by Mrs. Hilda Wilcock. The fire was confined to a locker under the staircase, and this and its contents were slightly damaged by fire and water. A house in Yale Road, off Tasman Street, was. destroyed by fire at 5.9 a.m. on Saturday, another residence alongside it was damaged by the flames, while a third was scorched. The fire originated in No. 2 Yale Road, a wooden building of two floors, and four rooms, owned by Mrs. A. Merry, and occupied by Thomqs Willing. The building, which was unoccupied at the time of the outbreak, and the contents were destroyed. No. 4, a wooden building of two floors containing four rooms, also owned by Mrs. Merry, in which the Moore family lived', was damaged by fire and water. Mr. Moore saved practically nothing of the contents, which were uninsured. No. 6, the house adjoining Moore’s, was saved, although tlie east wall was scorched. The house was owned and occupied by Airs. Julia Street, and was insured in the Commercial Union Office, for £5OO, while the contents were covered by a policy for £250 in the 1.0. A. Office. Neither of Airs. Alerry’s houses was insured. The need for protection against fire loss is obvious. Consult the Mercantile and General Insurance Company Ltd., Panama Street, Wellington.— Advt.