FIRE IN THE CITY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1913, Page 2

FIRE IN THE CITY

GOOD WORK BY THE BRIGADE. The prompt arrival and excellent work of the Fire Brigade last evening prevented what promised .to be' at one time a big blaze, on the corner of Grey and Featherston streets. A few minutes after 11 o clock flames were seen to burst from an old wooden building immediately opposite the General Post Office. The fire had a good hold when the brigade arrived, but, , though the premises were very old and very inflammable and there :was a" heavy wind, the brigade, afded by a good pressure of water, subdued the conflagration in about twenty I minutes. The fire is said to have originated in C. Bryant's picture-film store ohthe upper floor, Superintendent Tait having, expressed the opinion that -the- seat 6f the blaze was one of the .back rooms of the upstairs passage, where remains of fihhp were discovered. The, following offices in the building were damaged in a greater or less degree by. water :—C. E' Hickey, film agent (insured in the Commercial Union for £100, and. in the London, Liverpool, and Globe, for alike amount) ; J. Charlesworth, architect(£l2o in the -Alliance).; Barraud and Cd., .land agents, (£l4 .in the Standard); Charles Bruce Morison, K.C. (£IOOO in the London, Liverpool, ahd Globe on the building, and hbthihg on tho contents, ' owing to a policy recently lapsed). Bry' ant, who was covered by a policy bf £360 in the British Dominion, suffered practically total loss, The buiKing, which was for many years the Wellington office of the Union Steam Ship Company, is the property of Mr. Morison.' • HOW TO INSURE. The best insurance the business man tan invest in to prevent loss by fire pr burglary is one of John Tann's fire and burglar-proof safes, which never fail under the most severe tests. Sargood, Son, and Ewen are agents for John Taint's safes and strong-room doors.-— Advt.