SPECTACULAR FIRE IN CHRISTCHURCH
(Bv Tch'griiph.—Press Association.» I'HRISTCILUiRCH. July 4. A spectacular lire swept through the second and third floors of a large store on the premises of Central Egg Floor Limited, Tuam-Street, shortly before nine o'clock this evening. For more than an hour I hr- Christchurch Fire Brigade fought, tiie flames, which sent columns of .-moke, clouds and sparks high over the adjoining buildings. The lire was conlined to (he lop floors, which contained '■rates and packing material nnd did not reach the ground floor, whore there were I'm dozen eggs, about £5O worth of bacon and cheese ami two egg-grading machines. The main store in the rear of the premisos, which was imtom-hed, contained several thousand dozen eggs mid also th" bulk of the grading and stumping irmchinI'l'.V. The firemen first ent'-red the building, hut were driven back by the tlanCs. They then concentrated water from live loads of hose through, the windows of the top floors. The chairman of directors, Mr. <’. I'l-rguson. said the building and intents were fully covered by itisuram-e. The egg floor would be able to carry on tomorrow with receiving and distributing
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 238, 5 July 1944, Page 6
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189SPECTACULAR FIRE IN CHRISTCHURCH Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 238, 5 July 1944, Page 6
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