EXTENSIVE DAMAGE

Evening Star, Issue 19666, 20 September 1927, Page 6

EXTENSIVE DAMAGE

BAD WELLINGTON FIRE [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, September 20. The Tory street lire last night was in a two-story building owned by Thompson, Lewis, and Co., and occupied by Groves and Ryan, motor engineers, Rigby E. Pcrrct and Co., timber merchants and box manufacturers, and the Royal Ancient Order of Buffaloes on the top Hour. All the lodge fittings, including a piano and some valuable carved oak, also a quantity of regalia recently imported from England, wore lost. Their total value _is estimated at £450, and there is a policy of £3OO in the Guardian Office. All the stock and machinery in Perrelt’s was destroyed. There \vas_ an insurance of £3OO on stock and fittings in the Eagle and Star Office, £IOO on the plant'and machinery in the boxfactory. In the garage two motor cars and two ton trucks were destroyed. Most of the machinery and fittings were ruined. A policy of £SOO was held in the British Traders’ Office on the stock and fittings. Six cars were removed by a sou of thb licensee of the Dominion Hofei next door and another man.